For an informed discussion of the relation of Romanticism to religion -- a kind of anticipation of the "death of God" proclaimed...

Often wrongly portrayed as a cold rationalist, Isaac Newton is one of history’s most compelling figures. It is true that he was capable of...

Yoram Hazony What precisely is the content of the natural law ethics that emerges from the History of Israel? How is this ethics related to...

The Graphic Canon  (Seven Stories Press) is a gorgeous, one-of-a-kind trilogy that brings classic literatures of the world together with l...

Translated into English terza rima by Peter D’Epiro [Note: A revised version of this translation was posted on 3.23.15] A deafenin...

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Mary Beard in the New York Review of Books: Do the Classics Have a Future? the classics are embedded in the way we think about ourselv...

The New Testament is constantly being re-interpreted from a variety of perspectives. From feminists, to socialists, to traditionalists; th...

On the value of metaphor to science : The tentative discovery at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider of the Higgs boson -- among the key missin...

Two economists find income disparity in the Roman Empire at the peak of its population (150 C.E.): To determine the size of the Roman ec...

A friend brought to my attention a book that might be said to address questions at the heart of this blog, i.e., the complex legacy of ...

NPR focuses on a citywide effort in Tucson to put people in touch with Emily Dickenson - in some cases almost literally. Emily Dickins...