Mark Kingwell, a teacher in Toronto, on returning to a humanistic basis for education: We philosophers don’t value Plato because he has...

A friend posted these links:. The first is a catalog of the inscriptions that Montaigne placed on the beams of his famous library. The...

As we've often alluded to the complex relationship of the worldview of the Greeks to that of the Hebrews -- here's a painting found...

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...

Delancey Place offers "eclectic excerpts" from a large variety of books and blogs. You can subscribe and get them every day. Here...

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...