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Arsen Darnay reminds us that today is the traditional feast day of St. Hildegard von Bingen. She is indeed Saint Hildegard; while she is n...

On Time as the Consistent Union of Contraries Through time The droughten sky with rain can swell Through time Who does things badly do...

Noel Coward, "There are Bad Times Just Around the Corner." The man was a genius; few songs are so good at making bad times seem ...

David Graeber has a really excellent post on money and the Myth of Barter -- the view that primitive trade is a barter system and that mone...

Can we be assured, however, that there was never any echo of Evil in it? The diabolical is not limited to the wickedness popular wisdom ascr...

* Peter at "Conscious Entities" on qualia and intentionality . My view is a variation of his position (3); I think qualia are mere...

Chaerephon is one of history's memorable secondary characters, in the sense that we hardly see him at all and yet can hardly forget him....