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David Schaengold finds the skyscraper to be the emblematic building of the age of science, and the observation deck on some of them to be akin to a cathedral’s high altar. Excerpt: Nothing like the scientific method was found in antiquity, and what glimmers of it appeared in the Middle Ages were feeble. The systematic…

We didn’t get cable TV when we moved to Philly. Julie figured that because we only used it in Dallas for news, PBS Kids and the occasional Nickelodeon show, it was a waste of money to get it here. She’s right, especially because we stay well-informed on news via the Internet and public radio. (The…

After last night’s bleak post about man’s inhumanity to man, I wanted to counter with a post about something awesome: man’s capacity for forgiveness and healing. On my Templeton-Cambridge seminar last summer, my friend and colleague Amy Sullivan presented a project about forgiveness in Rwanda after the genocide. The story she told about what she…

We have a snow day off today. How am I spending it? Doing a good deed: teaching my oldest son how to play Diplomacy. I played it a lot in boarding school, and totally loved it, but haven’t been able to find anybody interested in it since then (and I’ve got no interest in playing…
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