Ciceronianus; causidicus

The American philosopher Roy Wood Sellars wrote a book I'm currently reading, entitled The Next Step in Religion:  An Essay towards the ...

These words were sung to the tune of the old spiritual by the Marx Brothers (and nameless others) in their masterpiece, Duck Soup , in jubil...

I use "practical" here in an effort to make clear that the skepticism I would like to consider is not what is sometimes called ...

George Orwell is another fine essayist I enjoy reading, along with Vidal, Hazlitt, Montaigne and others.  Not quite as ornate or elegant in ...

I was commenting on a visit to Prague in yesterday's post, and before I write of my next stop am inclined to address graffiti, which is ...