Siris

 Introduction Opening Passage: A young, white forehead boring through the darkness. An eleven-year-old girl. Siss. It was really only aftern...

 In law each case must be considered not only in itself but also as a possible precedent. If wealth is what can be bought or sold, we may cr...

 An interesting development: In 2015, 21 people were executed by Daesh for refusing to renounce Christianity; 20 of them were Coptic Orthodo...

 Ian Hacking recently died. He is best known for his work in philosophy of science. Representing and Intervening  was one of the most import...

 Today is the feast of St. Juan de Avila, Doctor of the Church. From one of his letters: Oh tepidity! If those who give way to it only right...

The Light that Knows that It Will Die Sometimes dawn is aching, golden tears that shine across a crumpled sky, a condensation of countless h...

 For scheduling reasons, I need to have a fairly short work for the next fortnightly book, particularly one that can be read in about a week...