The Philosopher's Stone

ES asks an interesting question:  "" While I don't dispute the valuable lesson, your comment takes for granted that the Trump ...

More than forty years ago, when I was still relatively newly arrived at the University of Massachuesetts Amherst, I knew a Professor of Ita...

When I read about the petition circulating [50,000 signatures so far] to allow guns at the Republican Convention, I thought, "wouldn...

I was sitting at dinner this evening, talking to Susie about what I had gleaned from the Washington Post story about Hillary Clinton and t...

Let me turn my attention now to the race for the Democratic Party presidential nomination.  First, the facts. There will be 4765 delega...

I have just finished reading a  long story  in today's Washington Post  going in great detail into the "scandal" arising out o...

It is a slow day, rainy down here in bigotland, so I thought I would try to respond to Chris's question about liberalism.  Let  me begi...