The Philosopher's Stone

The UMass email system has gone belly up for some reason, so if anyone reading this wants to contact me, post a message on this blog.  Witho...

The judicially sanctioned murder of Trayvon Martin has affected me more powerfully than I had anticipated.  There was nothing unusual or une...

I awoke this morning to learn that the Florida jury acquitted George Zimmerman.  Is there anyone on the face of the earth who believes that,...

While taking my morning walk, I found my mind turning to the Dickinson poem that I chose as the epigraph of my Autobiography .   I have ...

I was lying on our bed idly watching Tora Tora Tora [the old Black and White movie about the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor] when Susie walked...

The distinguished American historian Edmund. S. Morgan died five days ago at the age of ninety-seven.   One of his books, American Slave...

Immanuel Kant, as students of his philosophy will recall, asks three questions, to which he offers The Critical Philosophy as answers.  The ...