Whether compulsive behaviors like using pornography or sex-hookup apps should be considered addictions is still under debate.  Most of the debate concerns brain chemistry, but one does not have to be a neurophysiologist to see why the analogy with addiction is attractive.

Like drunks, people who practice these behaviors aren’t happy.

I was a math and science kid, and still love physics jokes.  Don’t worry, I don’t do this too often.

Question:  What do you get if you cross Schrodinger's Cat with Pavlov's Dog?  Answer:  A pet that salivates when you ring a bell.  Or does it?

It is a wise and beautiful thing to allow people of many kinds and origins to enter and become part of our country in search of a better life.  It is a wise and prudent thing to regulate the inflow of new residents to make sure that terrorists are kept out and that the newcomers are brought into our institutions.

Upon hearing that I had visited the Diocese of Miami recently to talk about natural law and the crisis of marriage, a friend asked “What’s the good news?”

It’s not an easy question.  But there is good news.

Ever since Sen. Marco Rubio’s comments about vocational training during last Tuesday’s Republican debate, I’ve been getting letters from friends, students, and former students who know my checkered past.  Like this one:

[C]onscientia est sicut praeco Dei, et nuntius; et quod dicit, non mandat ex se, sed mandat quasi ex Deo, sicut praeco, cum divulgat edictum regis.  Et hinc est, quod conscienta habet virtutem ligandi in his, quae possunt aliquo modo bene fieri.