The Philosopher's Stone

In the past three weeks, I have suffered a dramatic and significant decline in my mobility, for reasons that my doctors have not yet figured...

  Load audio player Dylan Thomas 1914 – 1953 Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage...

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 ...

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  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,...