The Philosopher's Stone

I taught my first class in September, 1955 and with a few breaks, for the Army and one thing and another, I have been at it ever since. For ...

Let me take just a moment to give voice to my inner fears. Let us suppose that Trump seeks the nomination in 2024 (whether in prison or not,...

If anyone is interested in my views about the work of Arendt, you can click on the link to box.net at the top of the blog and look on the se...

Let us set Karl Marx to one side and try to get some sense of the state of things as we see them here in the United States in the third deca...

What a grand series of comments to my brief description of the course I want to teach at UNC Chapel Hill. I am especially grateful to Ahmed ...

Next spring I will be teaching an advanced undergraduate course at UNC Chapel Hill (if enough students sign up – the minimum is 10.) The cou...

  Oh well.