The film Don Jon, recently released in theaters, has spurred a widespread media discussion about the ills of pornography. NPR, the Atlantic, and Ethika Politika all have interesting stories on the ...

When I told a writer friend of mine I was writing about sentimentality, he said, surprisingly, “Are you for it or against it?” Conventional wisdom holds that sentimentality is categorically repugnant, ...

Mom and apple pie. Dogs and cats. Weddings and babies. God and country. We call people “sentimental” when they express unusually strong emotional attachments to events, objects, places, eras and ...

The French Catholic philosopher and playwright Gabriel Marcel may be the 20th century’s great diagnostician of (and prophet against) one of modernity’s besetting sins: abstraction. Trained as an ...

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum recently announced the 2020 Modern Baseball Era (1970-1987) ballot which is comprised of nine distinguished ball players and one legendary executive. A 16 ...

Raoul Moat persuaded himself that he was as much a victim as the people he shot. The many tributes to him show that others take this seriously Credit: Photo: NORTH NEWS Turning on the radio one day, I ...