Jul 1, 2026 | Wednesday Quotes
In The American Porch: An Informal History of an Informal Place, Michael Dolan shares that in researching his book he discovered that what he thought was as American as “a greenback dollar” turned out to be instantiated across epochs and cultures. What Dolan learned...
Jun 24, 2026 | Wednesday Quotes
There are a number of lines that I repeat often to my students as capturing root truths. One of them is this: always be attentive to what you can call ‘mine,’ or not. At the heart of reality is the truth that much can become ‘mine’ that was not originally mine. This...
Jun 17, 2026 | Wednesday Quotes
This was published yesterday in The Institute of Family Studies Blog, part of their Father’s Day series: In reflecting on Father’s Day this year, I want to address the issue of a father’s role in the home. This issue is particularly difficult to discuss today,...
Jun 10, 2026 | Wednesday Quotes
In Aristotle and Aquinas’s mind everything comes down to leisure—that is, if we understand the term as they do. So I never tire of trying to understand it, and of revisiting key statements about it. One of my favorite lines gives a great angle into one of the foremost...
Jun 3, 2026 | Wednesday Quotes
There is something about morning. I was struck that in Thomas Aquinas’s commentary on the gospel he associates morning with “the glory of the resurrection” and quotes Psalm 30:5, “Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.” Yet I ask myself: does...
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