Changing Blue Jean Fashions Shows the Triumph of Veneer Over Depth

In their book Veneer, Timothy Willard and Jason Locy argue that contemporary American culture often values image or appearance over depth of character. ...

Similarities in Brain Responses to Religious Icons and Consumer Goods

Neurologists [once] scanned the brains of people of faith as they recalled and reexperienced the times they felt close to God, either in prayer, worship, ...

Importing the Idol of Consumerism

David Livermore writes in Serving with Eyes Wide Open:

My friend Ashish came from Northern India to visit me in Chicago. We were eating at Gino's Pizzeria ...

All Flesh Is as Grass

Consumerism is fed by a desire to forget our mortality.

Dead Giveaway

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

Nothing Needed

Socrates was wont to say—"They are most happy and nearest the Gods that needed nothing." And coming once up into the Exchange at Athens, ...

Modern Man Is Dead

A man sits in front of a bad television program and doesn't know that he is bored; he joins the rat race of commerce, where personal worth is measured ...

Hidden Gift

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.