Ciceronianus; causidicus

Those of a certain age may remember Rodin's statute, The Thinker , primarily due to the appearance of its likeness on TV, looming over...

It's not exactly the cheeriest of poems, but I've always been fond of it.  I refer of course to Matthew Arnold's poem " ...

Last weekend, I attended a performance of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra during one of my solo sojourns to the downtown of The City o...

I was reading some of the so-called "War Poets" last evening, preparatory I suppose to Memorial Day, or perhaps more properly in...

Plato, in the course of describing and justifying his frightening ideal state in his Republic , used as an allegory what's been ...