We're not dead yet, but I have been quite sick all week. Our annual commemorative Mozart essay will come a week late, on Feb. 3. Postin...

The second most boring part of teaching is reviewing material, for it catches the teacher in the doldrums between summarizing and examini...

Two hundred twenty one years from the founding of the republic, in the year they called 2008, the people of the nation America turned out i...

Memory is a strange word for a strange concept. What does it mean to remember? Our English word memory  is not helpful, conjuring images ...

Time is shaped or it is incomprehensible. Scientists peer in vain back at the still time before time which began time and forward through t...

Directed by Martin Scorsese. 2013. J. J. Abrams burnt out Star Trek  in two movies, George Lucas tinkered Star Wars  to death and then gav...

Directed by David O. Russell. 2013. Casting actors is an art. The casting director has to balance an understanding of the film's stor...

Ours is a complex age, contemporary wisdom advises. Everyone is so busy and there are so many people bustling about, doing different things...

Traditionalists are seldom lacking reasons they prefer the older form of the Roman Rite: the lectors, the extraordinary ministers of commun...

In celebration today I humbly present a small, choice sampling of my favorite polyphonic pieces for the Nativity. I've taken a few libe...