The Philosopher's Stone

It is now not quite six weeks since the Iowa caucuses.  There are four more months  until the Republican Convention.  Considering the speed ...

Thomas Frank is well-known for his earlier book What's the Matter With Kansas? ,  which contained,  among other things, the unforgettab...

A faithful reader of the blog sends me  this  link.  Check it out.  It seems that Noam is opening up a whole new career for over-the-hill le...

[I trust everyone caught the reference to a popular soap opera.] I have always thought of my students as my children.  This has been a ban...

There have been a number of interesting comments in the past few days that call for responses, but I have been deep in the bowels of the tax...

One of the enduring debates in Christian theology concerns the relationship between the faith expressed in the Holy Scriptures and the ratio...

Kid X [Kid X??] has this to say: "What about the following scenario, Dr. Wolff. Say Trump gets a wide majority of the delegates but ...