George Prochnik, “The Philosopher in Dark Times”
George Prochnik has written an affecting and thoughtful review of a collection of essays by Hannah Arendt, Thinking without a Banister: Essays in Understanding,...
Category: politics
Xenophon’s Socrates
Remarks that were meant to be delivered December 1st, 2017 by the author at the Gorman Faculty Lounge, University of Dallas. The dissertation defense was succes...
Amy King, “Perspective”
for X., because you need to stop being racist and apologizing for all that is wrong in the world. There are harsher consequences than my words or anger. There h...
On Anxiety
Down the highway she drove, accompanied by leather seats, a space-age dashboard, all the space climate control could afford. It was like she was completely insu...
On Esotericism
John Smith, according to Jill Lepore, was prone to making things up. He claimed to have bedded princesses while battling by land or sea the world over. Russia, ...