Ciceronianus; causidicus

We're all fairly familiar with this dread, aren't we?  If not from feeling the dread, then from being immersed in it through the pro...

I ponder now and then the development of Christianity, which took place during the years the Roman Empire dominated most of Europe and the M...

Napoleon Bonaparte, prior to becoming Emperor of the French, asserted that a Constitution should be short and obscure.  Joseph Addison, Engl...

Salvador Dali did a painting entitled "The Persistence of Memory"; it's one of his works featuring a dripping clock.  How tire...

We hear much of Orson Scott Card these days.  Most likely we do because his novel Ender's Game has been made into a movie coming soon t...