The Philosopher's Stone

It is an odd fact that if you suffer from some condition, it is reassuring to discover that it has a name, and even more reassuring to find ...

Okay, here it is .  If you have never seen the Abbott and Costello routine, do yourself a favor and watch it.  Old time comedy does not get ...

The trick at the heart of today's NY TIMES puzzle is really brilliant.  I won't spoil it for any of you who have not yet done the pu...

One of my favorite literary characters, at least for purposes of snarking references, is Smerdyakov, the bastard son of old Fyodor Karamazov...

One of the happy consequences of my intense engagement with the text of Capital this semester is that I tend, more even than usual, to ...

I had a nice interesting theoretical post planned for tomorrow, and then I read that Chuck Schumer, annointed as Harry Reid's successor ...

Over the weekend, Susie went to see Gett:  The Trial of Viviane Amsalem .  [I could not bring myself to see it -- I thought it would make me...