https://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2007/12/09/tis_the_season/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 06:44:22 -0400<![CDATA[Now that the Christmas season is upon us (is it still OK to say that &#8212; &#8220;Christmas,&#8221; I mean?) and we are enjoined on all sides to be joyful, generous, and think of peace and the less fortunate, it may be appropriate to pause to reflect about the nature of the human animal. I do not, I hasten to say, want to be unedifying on this flinty Sunday morning. But it is, I think, worth reflecting on the myriad emotions the Christmas season elicits and depends upon. One thing (not, I need hardly say, the only thing) that Christmas presupposes is a spirit of kindliness and generosity, a spirit, that is to say, of altruism. I&#8217;ve had occasion to write about altruism before. I thought some readers might be interested in a reprise of those thoughts.]]>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 05:41:40 -0500<![CDATA[Roger Kimball]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-kimball/2007/12/09/tis_the_season-n114428