Ciceronianus; causidicus

You've all heard  O Fortuna , though you may not know that you have.  This medieval poem was set to music by Carl Off in the 1930s.  The...

What could be more satisfying than prohibiting that certain thoughts be thought, words be said, and books be read?  Prohibiting that certain...

  The Sphinx (not the one in Egypt) sat outside Thebes, perched like a cat on a short pillar if the illustration above is representative.  I...

  The Supreme Court's authority not to exercise its authority may be one of its greatest powers.  The power to decline, to evade, to ign...

On January 8, 2021, I wrote a post about the events of January 6th of that year at the Capitol of our Great Republic, remarking that it repr...