Yesterday afternoon I made a deal with my wife. We agreed that if we would leave the Democratic Convention on the television, for broadness...

Two types will be familiar to experienced teachers: the teacher who is still at Chapter 3 because "the students aren't ready to mo...

Peter Levine had an article in Aeon a few weeks ago  calling out philosophy for being, "a remarkably un-diverse discipline." I do...

So I've retired from teaching, at least insofar as a man of 30 years can be said to have retired from anything. Maybe I ought to say th...

Directed by David Lean. 1957. "There is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, when two strong men stand face to fac...

Greetings and welcome to the Big Apple! For whatever reason you've come–a new career, social aspirations, or a pathological rejection o...

I just wrote several essays. The first was short, but I didn't know what I wanted to say until the end so most of it was insubstantial....

Supporting the unfortunate is among the greatest of virtues. We call him magnanimous who is of such great stature that he can give liberall...

Greek mythology is filled with storied horrors of punishment. Ixion spins eternally on his infernal wheel for his attempted rape of Zeus...

In the wake of the attacks in Paris, there have been many conservative complaints about the Western response. We are not angry enough. W...