Culture • Current Conversations Walker Percy, One More Time Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read The artists get there first, one more time. I am reading a manuscript, the galleys actually, which the publisher needs this next week. It is good work, but tedious. The... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Billy Corgan on Music and More Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read Washington is a wonderful and weird place, a city of glories and shames. Having grown up in a family where my father was jointly-employed by the University of California and... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture A Review: 101 Secrets for Your Twenties Sarah Phillips | 3 min read “Sometimes surviving your 20s is nothing more glamorous than just holding on for dear life on the back of an inner tube like a kid being whipped around by a... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture What Do You Love? Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read “What do you love?” Years ago I read these words in Augustine’s Enchiridion, his “handbook” or catechism, which over the centuries has been the most widely published of all his... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture On Views and Voyeurs Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read Sometimes words are very interesting. Take “view,” for example. Its etymology connects it to words like see, know, and vision. An early Latin root is “videre,” and in that we... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations Has Foodie Culture Forgotten the Poor? Erik Bonkovsky | 4 min read I recently attended a Public Square event hosted by the Richmond Times-Dispatch. We discussed recent survey results about how “it” cities like Richmond can attract and keep millennial professionals, who represent the future... Continue Reading