Generational chauvinism is rampant today. Many if not most people regard their generation as superior to all others. They presume themselves more enlightened than other generations. Such an …
Is the Child Father to the Man?
Looking back, a man really has a more objective feeling about himself as a child than he has about his father or mother. He feels as if that child were not the present he, individually, but an …
Honor Converts
Amid the political, cultural, historical and spiritual turmoil of our moment, many of us find ourselves a bit disoriented. Our longstanding, defining views of institutions and issues may be …
First Responder to the Future
Edward Emerson wrote the foreword to his late father's collected writings. It begins: Like all great thinkers, Ralph Waldo Emerson was ahead of his time. We, rather than the people who surrounded …