People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.

Usage ain't always a matter of ought.

The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.

Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football.

Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.

The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South.

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.