The Philosopher's Stone

There are still about 48 days or so before Trump Is inaugurated and for all that time Biden is president. As he demonstrated by his decision...

During my long convalescence, I wrote several blog posts in my head. One of them concerned the talk about Russia's use of nuclear weapon...

Still here, struggling.  Carry on.  

When I went to college, seventy-four years ago, five percent of adult Americans had four-year college degrees. This meant that aside from do...

Four months ago I slipped in the kitchen and banged the back of my head on the floor, producing a subdural hematoma.. Thus began a saga that...

 I managed to make it through college, graduate school, and a Harvard instructorship without owning a car, but in 1961, As I set out from Ca...

Yesterday, by way of an anonymous comment on this blog, I learned for the very first time the devastating news that Noam Chomsky a year ago ...