Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Old Men Shall Dream Dreams

At the beginning of July in 1994, I arrived in Wheaton, Illinois. Wendy and the three of our kids who were still at home came later in the summer. That was a heady time, leading up to the first issue of Books & Culture a little more than a year later, and I met a […]

The questions of ‘Shane’ still resonate many years later

Based on the 1949 novel by Jack Schaefer, and directed by George Stevens, the Western technicolor “Shane” (1953) is considered a masterpiece by many. Seventy years on, the movie is still written about, analyzed, and taught in film courses. Shane (Alan Ladd) is the quintessential outsider: no family, no history, a man of action, and […]