Waking Up the Dead

Following the release of avowed American atheist Sam Harris’ new book, Waking Up, columnists Frank Bruni and Gary Cutting of the New York Times take the opportunity to review the new book and interview Harris respectively. I managed to read through both articles...

The Loss of Meaning

In an earlier post, I wrote of the generation, my generation, of Baby Boomers who by and large in raising our children either abdicated or ignored the teaching of defined cultural, social and societal distinctions that we were once taught by our parents: the “Elder...