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A Ballad of Abbreviations by G. K. Chesterton The American's a hustler, for he says so, And surely the American must know. He ...

Daniel Mansfield and N. J. Wildberger discuss Babylonian mathematics:

Shelley, Leigh Hunt, and Keats once held a sonnet-writing competition in which the goal was to write a sonnet about the Nile in fifteen minu...

Rubens's Assumption of the Virgin : Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary Surely the Lord raises up the lowly, giving goodne...

A Word by G. K. Chesterton A word came forth in Galilee, a word like to a star; It climbed and rang and blessed and burnt wherever brave...

Michael Spicher has a nice article on aesthetic taste at the IEP. It's a very large and complex topic, and I think article does a good ...

The next fortnightly book will be The Tale of Genji, by Murusaki Shikibu. Since it's a long work, it might end up being a three-week ...