The Philosopher's Stone

I'm not sure you youngsters know just how hard it is for me to keep writing light, amusing things on this blog while the world aroun...

America's attention has been focused on ISIS for some time now, culminating in the address by President Obama to the nation concerni...

Pretty clearly Tony Couture's involvement with podcasting and such like things is way, way beyond mine.  I would hate to think that I wa...

Thank you all, Tony Couture, Jim Westrich, and Jerry Fresia, for your advice on  how to proceed in my Marx course.  Tony, my problem with yo...

One of my very favorite movies is the 1984 Milos Forman version of the 1979 Peter Shaffer play Amadeus [which Wikipedia tells me was in...

While I was agitating myself about what I should blog about today, I happened in Brian Leiter's blog on a link to "The Harshest Phi...

I do not read many serious novels.  I don't suppose I have read more than half a dozen in the past twenty years, not counting the re-rea...