The Philosopher's Stone

There is a lovely scene in The Sting when Robert Redford, a two-bit grifter, goes to see the legendary Paul Newman. who is hanging out in a ...

 I was dictating t my phone.  I meant Achim, of course.

  for that thoughtful and kind comment. I was much touched by.

Eric Erickson, in his finest book, Childhood and Society, writes wisely that “ An individual life is the accidental coincidence of but one ...

56 years ago, I was a young associate professor in the Columbia philosophy department, on leave for the year to teach at Rutgers University,...

It has been just short of a month since I last posted on this blog. During that time, the average number of visits per day to the blog, as m...

What can Biden do right now, today, to avoid even more deaths of innocent people in Gaza? I am not asking what he can do if he gets Congress...