Siris

I've been looking into origami-based geometry recently, on and off, and it's quite a fascinating subject. Geometry is based on const...

Yesterday was the feast day of St. John Southworth, although today is the anniversary of his martyrdom. As you would guess from the name, he...

An interesting recent ruling from Germany : Germany’s Jewish and Muslim communities responded with outrage today to a highly controversial...

Gilson somewhere notes that the tendency of people in the nineteenth century to assume that Newtonian physics showed that the universe was d...

Massimo Pigliucci recently committed one of my pet peeves: Plato famously maintained that knowledge is “justified true belief,” meaning t...

All great and sudden changes are dangerous to the body natural, but much more to the body politic. Time and custom beget reverence and admir...

In some late reading for St. Thomas More's feast-day last week, I was delighted to come across the following letter from More to his chi...