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September 2020

September 11, 2020

Wisdom, Art, Math, Science. . . Oh My!

There is something good about school that we must never lose. Take one week in...

September 10, 2020

An Apologia for my Fandom: Why care about Socrates?

Why care about Socrates? Why care about any person who lived a long time ago?...

September 02, 2020

What’s new? In praise of hepcats. (Euthyphro)

When I ask my wife what's new, she generally responds: "What's new pussycat?" Tom Jones,...

August 2020

August 30, 2020

An Impulse Totally Wrong: A Danger of Reading Old Books

Reading old books can be good, just as reading more contemporary books is necessary. The...

August 29, 2020

On Shakespeare (A Response from a Critic)

Before the pandemic, Jeff Williams sent me a criticism of my views of Shakespeare. I...

August 26, 2020

Mind Churn

Then beside their ships the other nobles of the grand Achaean army slept the whole...

July 2020

July 13, 2020

Plato goes on being important. . .and is oft misunderstood.

Rejoice. Smart people have helped us, there are very few new questions. Long ago very...

July 07, 2020

C.S. Lewis and A.E. Taylor: Literature, Philosophy, Plato, and the Story (Part 2/2)

“The story will save us. . .”so Plato ends Republic written when his society was dying....

July 06, 2020

C.S. Lewis and A.E. Taylor: Literature, Philosophy, Plato, and the Story (Part 1/2)

C.S. Lewis was certainly a Christian, but an uncertain Platonist. A comparison to his contemporary...

June 2020

June 29, 2020

On the Russian Revolution and Today (Do not be a Robert Service)

If you assume something is true, then showing that it is true is easy. Contrary...

June 18, 2020

Mainstream, Establishment, Obviously Wrong in a Particular Way. This Never Changes

We must trust the experts, except when we cannot, and there is a particular kind...

June 10, 2020

Something to Read Just Now (Ten Books I Find Helpful)

What to read this summer? This week two helpful books stood out. One was the...

June 09, 2020

The Bite of the Tarantula and the Power of Musick

Cure the bite of the "tarantula!" Disharmony is a bad sign in the soul or...

June 04, 2020

Summer Reading for Jollification: Pickwick Papers (with some questions!)

Sleep sometimes hides from me and I find words soothing. They distract me from my...

June 01, 2020

A Long Day’s Journey. . .and David Suchet

In Praise of David Suchet David Suchet is the greatest actor I have ever seen...

May 2020

May 22, 2020

It is impossible for a man to achieve good through evil means.

XXI. Be attentive to your heart and watch your enemies, for they are cunning in...

May 21, 2020

Confidence in Peace, Help in the Crisis

XVI. He who receives no help when at war should feel no confidence when at...

May 19, 2020

At the Center of the Labyrinth . . . (On Pandemics, Dying, and Phaedrus)

Socrates waits to die. Athens has decided that he is a trouble maker, asking impertinent...

May 18, 2020

The Necessity of Poetry to the Analytic Mind

Once I knew a scholar who thought fiction was useless, poetry merely sentimental, and wished...

May 13, 2020

Frank Baum Offers a Means to Keep Sports Going at the University When Things Must Be Cut (Oz on Education)

The Problems of Higher Education Did Not Start Yesterday Remarkably, higher education should focus on...

May 12, 2020

The Emerald City of Oz and Blaming Fans for Bad Writing

Should fans let characters go? When I heard that William Shatner's Kirk was doing one...

May 11, 2020

Maytime in Pandemic Time (Adélia Prado)

The State of May Salvation operates in the abyss. In this indescribable place, night’s power...

May 10, 2020

Mater Dolorosa

Mater Dolorosa This taffy tastes like coconut, Mama. Did you put coconut in it? –...

May 04, 2020

Pandemic Tyranny: Prado, as a Poet, and Plato

Pandemic times spawn tyrants, little dictators offering security in exchange for our liberty or the...

April 2020

April 30, 2020

The Alphabet in the Park (Adelia Prado)

To feel is human, passionate living is divine. The place of the rational in human...

April 29, 2020

The Dazzled Intellect (Plato, Paradise, Pandemics)

We find ugliness easier to describe than perfect beauty. Stories of villainy or of complicated...

April 28, 2020

On Purgation in the Pandemic (Dante)

If "these are the times that try men's souls," then we are blessed. To see...

April 27, 2020

The Angry Interlocutor (Meno)

Hope told her daughters this: "Never marry an angry man or a man with an...

April 26, 2020

The Bad Question (Plato’s Meno)

"There is no such thing as a bad question." This is wrong, sort of. There are bad...

April 23, 2020

Down, but only if We Must and Mostly Up (Dante and His Journey)

Let’s go up to Zion as quickly as we can! Often we need to see...