The Philosopher's Stone

Moving from Amherst, MA [well, actually, Pelham] to Chapel Hill, NC was a bit like moving from Brigadoon to Erewhon.  Amherst was comfortab...

We began with the largest national demonstration in this country's history, five million by some counts.  This has been followed by many...

I. M. Flaud quotes extended passages from a later edition of von Neumann and Morgenstern dealing with the extension of the notion of a zero-...

Someone, I cannot now find the question, asked me on this blog how many books I have in my personal library.  The answer is very few, perhap...

Someone, I think it was Chris, described this as a “Marxist/anarchist blog,” which I suppose is fair enough, inasmuch as I identify myself ...

I should like to make an observation anent the responses to my post titled “I WEEP.”  There is something gratifying, but also diminishing, ...

I have several times on this blog remarked on the ability of some of the greatest thinkers of the past three centuries to forge groundbreak...