Siris

* How to make a basic wire recorder . Wire recorders were the predecessors of tape recorders; instead of magnetic tape they worked by magnet...

My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the nonviolent resister may sound rather shocking. But I must confess that I am not...

Eunice, on the other hand, apparently agrees with me that obligations of discourse must be agreed upon .

It's generally recognized that Coleridge had an ambition to be a philosophical poet; it seems to be less remarked that Wordsworth did as...

* Roger Scruton talks Newman and the University . * Miriam Burstein notes that Scruton's discussion leaves a few things out . * And...

So it's now Blessed John Henry Newman. From one of his sermons , a passage that is always timely: As Christians, we cannot forget how ...

* John Wilkins and a few others are starting up an HPS (history and philosophy of science) blog called Whewell's Ghost . The idea is to ...