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* Ancient weapons * Thony C on John Dee * Rebecca Stark on the Session of Christ * Ilya Somin has a good op-ed on the implications of ...

There's an old medical saying, often attributed to the followers of the alchemist Paracelsus, that the dose makes the poison. Paracelsus...

Serious posting probably will be sporadic at best, but how about some idea-games? Here's one I occasionally play myself, which has come ...

Mountain Contemplations As soaring stone the steeple of God, the star-crowned seat of Zeus the Thunderer, in glory grows from ground mos...

Scott Alexander (he gives links): Did Thomas Aquinas really say that rape was less of a sin than masturbation? His text itself seems pret...

Introduction Opening Passage: This is one of those books that has no strict opening passage, since it purports to be a translation of a h...

My desktop was apparently fried in a thunderstorm Friday night. I still have internet and my laptop, but my laptop's not really handy fo...