Author: Mark Ward

  • March 28, 2014
    My dissertation committee chairman is still skeptical that I ever learned μι any Greek, but I'm pretty sure I did.…

  • March 21, 2014
    This is exactly why I read Ross Douthat. He holds out more hope for the possibilities of pluralism than I…

  • March 20, 2014
    I'm a bit late to this, but I stole a few minutes this week from my non-TV endeavors (that would…

  • March 20, 2014
    Searching for public domain books to read to my small son, I ran across E. Nesbit's Five Children and It. I…

  • March 17, 2014
    In 1809, when he was thirty-seven, the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge paused to recall a youthful dream, a plan he…

  • March 13, 2014
    Story 1 Many years ago I remarked to a group of grad school friends, “One of the goals I have…