Several years ago, I served on the board of directors of a pair of Atlantic City, New Jersey hotels. It was in Atlantic City that Charles Darrow created the board game Monopoly in 1933. As a child I loved to evaluate my financial skills against my...
I had gone out for football in my senior year at Xavier. I could run and catch the ball but I think my lack of the killer instinct soured the coach on my overall value to the team. After three games on the pines, I decided to quit football and...
The word Leviathan has a history rich in legend, myth, theology and philosophy. Its origins date back to Greek mythology, with its sea serpent demons. One can easily find references to it in several books of the Bible. When I try to imagine it, I...
Sometimes, I would love to scream, Stop the world I want to get off. It is moving far too fast for my age and temperament. I have an analog brain in a digital world. My late wife, a farmer’s daughter, had several down on the...
Many years ago, I was doing a weekly talk show on WGNU radio, a station that prided itself on its diversity of hosts. Two of its most popular hosts were radical blacks. Because of their vitriol, passion and high ratings, they had much more air time...
During a modest walk, on a sunny March day, I stopped in a Dick’s and bought myself a Georgia Tech tee-shirt with a menacing yellow jacket on it. Tech has had a special place in my heart since I was 11. I remember watching their football team on TV...
Some things never really change, even though their nomenclature often endures frequent variants like a virus. Some viruses never go away. The most lethal are the moral and intellectual infections that masquerade under many iterations. With apologies...
The early 20th century Catholic apologist, G. K. Chesterton, lamented about the sorry state of education. In his view, the main fact about education is that it does not exist. As he perceived it in England, there was little direct integration or...
