The Philosopher's Stone

I have just learned that In Defense of Anarchism will be translated into Arabic and published in Kuwait.  I guess it is too much to hope tha...

One of the continuing challenges in teaching is to figure out what your students do not know. Especially when teaching graduate students, th...

Seven years ago, in 2015, I did a deep dive into the rules governing the allocation of Republican Party convention delegates in the differen...

For those who did not recognize the passage quoted by Fritz Poebel in his comment, you will find it in the second paragraph of the Introduct...

In Blazing Saddles, Madeline Kahn does a spectacular send-up of Marlene Dietrich as Lili von Shtupp singing “I’m Tired.”  That is the way I ...

                                          Will Trump get the nomination?   Loyal readers of this blog with good memories will recall tha...

Sorry to have been away. I am still trying to process the unexpected results of the election. The fact that one week after the election ther...