Ciceronianus; causidicus

Certain of the more self-righteous and, I think, tiresome students (and professors?) at some institutions of higher education in our Gloriou...

Cicero, in his speech normally referred to as Pro Milone, spoke the words which serve as the title to this post.  Well, being a Roman of the...

The title to this post is also that of one of my favorite Miles Davis tunes.  It means, of course, "time flies" but may have been ...

Richard Wolin, a professor of history and comparative literature at City University of New York, has written an interesting book entitled Th...

Wordsworth's poem The World is too Much with Us is I think an admirable one.  I'm afraid that I can't normally think of Wordswo...