Culture • Popular Culture The Delight of Reading Rediscovered Erin Rodewald | 12 min read Americans have a reading problem. For starters, fewer of us can be found with our noses in a book these days. According to a recent Gallup poll, book readership is... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture On “The Banshees of Inisherin” Dr. Steven Garber | 4 min read Windswept. Having felt the Atlantic Ocean winds across my face, enamored by the coastline of Ireland, breathing deeply of its bracing air all day long, I know that those who... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Bah Humbug: Cards, Letters and Things Remembered Erin Rodewald | 9 min read I‘d like to report a bit of bah humbug that has me particularly troubled. In recent years, I’ve noticed fewer and fewer Christmas cards landing in my mailbox. At first,... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture The Beauty of Love as It Was Made to Be: Marcus Mumford’s “Self-Titled” Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read We long to be loved and we long to love, all of us. And while we sometimes get it more right than not, sometimes we fail miserably, wounding ourselves and... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture A Story. A Person. An Idea. Dr. Steven Garber | 5 min read This week I was in Stanford, Kentucky, the second oldest town in the state, taking part in the biannual gathering of the Wedgwood Circle. Most of 15 years ago a... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Loving Lucy Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read I love Lucy! Except he didn’t— and that is the great grief at the heart of the new film, “Being the Ricardos.” Having grown up with Lucille Ball and... Continue Reading
