Sophists have gotten a bad rap, largely due to Plato. Dedicated to teaching arête or excellence to...
Rufus F.
Rufus is a likeable curmudgeon. He has a PhD in History, sang for a decade in a punk band, and recently moved to NYC after nearly two decades in Canada. He wrote the book "The Paris Bureau" from Dio Press (2021).
Speaking of public decorum and the surveillance culture (two recent subjects), over at Feministe they’re telling us...
Fine, I’ll go on record about whether San Francisco government workers should have their pop taken away,...
As I get older, I find myself, really against my will, struck much more often by how...
Okay, just so we’re all clear on this: Once upon a time, I proposed that we read...
I just wanted to do a quick test and see if I can post something here without...
When we occupy ourselves with countering other people’s ideas, are we defining our own ideas in a...
A screaming came across the sky. The pine needled hush of cottage country was briefly, but violently,...
It is a strange irony that the French, for all their criticisms of America, tend so often...
We can’t completely condemn Medea: after all, she was seduced and manipulated by the Corinthian warrior Jason,...
Continuing with our detour into the Buddhist scriptures- ‘wandering on the way’ as it were- I am...
Today, June 19th, is “Juneteenth”: the date commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. It...
The death of Socrates brings us, in a strange way, to the life of the Buddha. Socrates...
With blogging, I sometimes wonder if I’ve really accomplished anything by linking to another text and saying,...
At Feministe, Jill writes about a heartsickening story of a 13 year old’s self-induced abortion after being impregnated...
First off: Welcome to Austin Bramwell and Lisa Kramer! The more the merrier around here. Okay, the...
Socrates brings up Aristophanes’s play The Clouds during his trial in order to respond to its unflattering...
How will they get all that oil out of the Gulf of Mexico? Paul Stamets suggests mycoremediation:...
Stepping into the way-back machine, Pam’s House Blend brings to light a CBS report on homosexuality, circa 1967: “With...
Stepping from the Crito to the Phaedo dialogue, Plato moves onto more solid ground by switching the...
