It seems like everyone knows a narcissist these days. It isn’t a term I really thought about a decade ago. After I left a teaching position with a corrupt president, I started hearing people refer to him as a Narcissist. I also have a sister about whom we used to say, “She just can’t see beyond herself.” It was always a benign issue… until it wasn’t....

The readers of USA TODAY have voted the Ark Encounter and the Creation Museums in Kentucky the best faith-based museums in the United States. The two Kentucky-based museums obtained the top two positions in the poll – “10 Best Readers’ Choice Best Religious Museums” 2023 by USA TODAY. The Ark Encounter, a Christian theme park in Kentucky’s Williamstown, contains....

I grew up on a small ranch in Northern California. My mother, who was raised in rural Tennessee and loved the land, took care of the ranch and home. My father was an Appellate Court Judge in Sacramento. While I was in elementary school, my father was the first Latino appointed to the California State Supreme Court. At his inauguration, I remember hearing the chant, “Viva Reynoso.” I had no idea what it meant....

Beauty and the sublime have historically been at the heart of philosophical aesthetics. Since the writings of Immanuel Kant and Edmund Burke, in the eighteenth century, aesthetics has been considered a philosophical category of its own whereas, previously, philosophers, even those with aesthetic concerns such as Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas, did not view aesthetics as a separate category....