The danger of Hollywood fantasy films is that they are simply too glossy, too picaresque, too spectacular. And too much…
Sculpture by Taiwanese artist Ju Ming. One cannot grasp the Asian aesthetic of cuteness apart from courtesies toward elders, especially…
Karl Kerenyi, who was Joseph Campbell’s peer, wrote of the Greek myths, that Aphrodite was a solar goddess, whose promise…
From today’s Halloween march, a shocking abortion rights protest, in which my sister participated. In a venue of bloodied zombies…
There is no sword that cuts purely from outside the whole. You can always redraw the lines of separation between…
Our dreams do not come true, as such, in the way I might have wished for. And yet it is…
The best allegory for what science can reveal about faith is not the particle accelerator or the telescope but the…
Chuang Tzu: “Pour into it and it does not fill, bale out of it and it is not drained —…
Without images, one cannot live, except as a machine or a slave. That is why we cling so often even…
Once, in Greek myth, virgins were known to fall in wells, and these places marked portals to the underworld. Even…