A few months ago I came across a documentary on PBS recounting the life of the economist Milton Friedman , one of my true intellectual heroe...

I was fortunate enough recently to visit Paris, and I was reminded of the importance of manners. Especially in a place where one doesn’t spe...

As stories of Al Gore's profligate energy use for his mansion in Nashville have circulated, some bloggers have made mention of the envi...

The other day in class at my very liberal seminary, I committed a cardinal sin: not only did I defend capitalism in the face of Christian th...

Much has been made of the low-rated and generally dull Oscars which aired on Sunday night. As unused moments for humor came and went, produc...

It seems that with every passing week, the call for an architectural response to global warming seems to be getting louder and louder. Deman...

As the resident non-architect to blog on a site about architecture, I thought I owed it to myself to read The Fountainhead , Ayn Rand’s desc...

I realize this may seem to be a bit of a departure from A&M’s usual fare, pardon the pun. We usually prefer to dabble in architecture (o...

Thinking about corbrusier’s recent post, I have been considering again, and trying not to take it for granted, what it means to live in a fr...

The recent deaths of Saddam Hussein, Jeanne Kirkpatrick , Augusto Pinochet, the poisoned Russian spy along with the current debate on the ex...

Listening to a podcast the other day spurred me to ask what the future holds for religion in a quickly-changing world. Futurist Raymond Kurz...

I remember it very well. On Christmas morning when I was about 11, I opened the front door to my mother's house, looked at the assembled...

For those fortunate to have attended college on a campus with an architecture school, visitors to the architecture buildings are instantly c...

In Mel Gibson's Apocalypto , viewers of his previous two films will experience the familiar: brutal violence, fierce action, and a power...

It's that time of year again. That confusing time of year. The time of year where we look ahead to Christmas before we're done with ...