So I'm suffering from a bad case of treppenwitz  today, after yesterday an obnoxious driver cut me off on the road after riding imperti...

When considering the causes of your actions, first consider their type so that you may consider more finely their nature. Did you act by ...

In the last decades before the birth of Christ, as the Roman people learned to embrace the yoke of an ostensibly reluctant autocrat, the hi...

If there is any idea which does not excite, it is moderation. Moderation lacks the pizzazz of excess, with all of its bells and fanfare, ...

La Clemenza di Tito It has been said that comedy is tragedy plus time. Ignoring fact that the statement is attributed to comedians and ...

Welcome to Part Eight of our series on the rhetoric of American presidential inaugural addresses. Please feel free to look at the previou...

Danger is an escapable part of life. We fear confronting it, but we like the thought of doing so. We adore our heroes, real and fictional, ...

Thank You For Arguing. by Jay Heinrichs. Ch. 26 I don't know quite what to say about a chapter which begins with a leading quote t...

Memory is a strange word for a strange concept. What does it mean to remember? Our English word memory  is not helpful, conjuring images ...

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought;  and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. – G. K. Chesterton ...

an inquiry into anecdotal evidence It is an annual goal of mine to attempt, throughout a year, to observe one particular idea in detail th...

On Moderation: Defending an Ancient Virtue in a Modern World by Harry Clor. 2008. In everything it is no easy task to find the middle. . ...

Martin Amis has a column in yesterday's Guardian in which he puts contemporary intellectual, author, and famed debated Christopher Hitc...