The Philosopher's Stone

I have been fighting flab for forty years.   This is not a world-historical struggle against the concept of overweight, simply my own pers...

I am eighty-four years old.   For most of those years, I have been observing other people and making judgments about why they behave as th...

My son, Professor Tobias Barrington Wolff, who knows about this stuff and teaches Constitutoinal Law, posted this comment on FaceBook.  It i...

It is said that misery loves company.   Perhaps that is why I found David Palmeter’s lengthy comment so comforting.   At any rate, it prod...

I have been so troubled this past week and more that it has been difficult for me to focus my mind or regain my equilibrium.   More and mo...

I am back from a rally in downtown Chapel Hill.  Maybe 500 people on a hot late June day.  Lord knows, it is not much to do, but every littl...

In 1961, after completing a three year Instructorship in Philosophy and General Education at Harvard, I went to the University of Chicago ...