Technology and intimacy

I recently had the chance to sit in on a day-long seminar at the fall meeting of the North Carolina Psychological Association. The topic should interest most anyone concerned with keeping families together in today’s electronic information age: it was...

With a patter and a pitter

Last Friday, as all good fans of J.R.R. Tolkien should know by now, marked the 75th anniversary of the release of There and Back Again, better known as The Hobbit, in Great Britain. And Saturday (Sept. 22) was Bilbo Baggins’ birthday: the book’s main...

Where is the line?

The murder of an American diplomat and three others in Libya, the deaths of many others in riotous protests,  and an ongoing outbreak of rage in the Muslim world that shows no sign of abating call for us to ask an important question: Should videos such as the...