Siris

A very real psychological interest, almost amounting to a psychological mystery, attaches to any early work of Jane Austen. And for that one...

* I tend not to like teaching what goes by the label 'applied ethics' in my Ethics courses. For one reason, the label is a bit absur...

Today is the Feast of the Presentation of Mary, also known as the Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple. Like a significant number of Maria...

I've been grading, grading, grading recently, and in the course of doing it I have watched three classic mystery comedies: A Shot in the...

I have been asked to explain what I meant by saying that "Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity." I have no notion when I...

Keith Frankish has an essay at Aeon on clarity in philosophy : Great philosophy is not always easy. Some philosophers – Kant, Hegel, Heide...

Josh White, "One Meat Ball". It's an odd classic, but a catchy one.