The Philosopher's Stone

I just finished watching The Queen's Gambit and I will freely confess that I was moved to tears by it.  It evoked so many lovely memorie...

In many colleges and universities, courses regularly meet either on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays or else on Tuesdays and Thursdays. If y...

In my endless quest for ways to pass the time until the votes start coming in, I found on Netflix a miniseries called The Queen's Gambit...

Before I return to our current obsession with the election, I thought I would say something about how I think about the work of a great phil...

When you are cooped up in an apartment, as I have been for more than seven months, you quite naturally cast about for sources of amusement. ...

As we all know, the early voting in this election has been off the charts. By the end of today, in all likelihood, 40% of all the votes that...

Well, we have nine days to go and I have completely run out of deep, thoughtful, provocative things to say. I am reduced to binge watching g...