Siris

I've been thinking a bit about the role of biases in my own scholarly work, and about what one should do to compensate for them. A case ...

These are all old, but I want to start combing through some of the poem drafts I've posted here, so here's a re-posting of several m...

The story is told that there once was a rajah who entrusted his son to the instruction of a wise pandit. For many years the pandit taught th...

There is an interesting discussion going on at FQI about noncognitivism and logic; I show up a few times in the comments thread. One of my ...

A botanist seeking a rare tree met two country people from whom he requested information. "There is one of those trees in this wood her...

Death is swallowed up in victory. Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting? God bless you all on this Feast of the Hol...

Which of the three types of stagnation do we exemplify? Loss of cultural capital (Stagnation A), certainly, marked by the inability of today...