Ciceronianus; causidicus

These are famous words from a famous poem.  No doubt they've been explained already by many, or at least analyzed; perhaps even by t...

I've tried for some years now to read The Education of Henry Adams .  I have not succeeded in doing so.  I'm trying to read it on...

It seems there is a difference between "dead languages" and "extinct languages."  An extinct language is one that is n...

In our Glorious Republic, the authority of the president to grant pardons is itself granted by the Constitution.  It is granted in Articl...

Statues have been much in the news, lately.  Not the one pictured above, but others.  The one pictured above is of Henry IV of France.  ...