In an interesting post at Girl w/ Pen, Alison Piepmeier discusses her discomfort with using battle metaphors...
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).
A landmark worth noting: After 15 years of work, scientists have, for the first time, created a...
The French Romantic author Gérard de Nerval once wrote: “In the character of our nation, there is...
Always follow your dreams! Like Quentin Dupieux, whose dream was to make a horror movie about a...
Now we come to the dialogue “Crito”, which poses the question: What does the individual owe his...
In the Apology, Socrates defends himself, badly, against the charge of impiety stemming from the belief that...
“He must have felt as though he had butted out a cigarette on his own soul.” From...
In Euthyphro, Plato deals with piety and the mystery thereof. As the dialogue opens, Socrates encounters Euthyphro...
In Gorgias, Plato expands on many of the themes of the Republic while posing the implicit question:...
It’s a bit of a cliche to suggest that, if you want to understand the 60s, the...
In The Republic, Plato attempts to translate the Sacred Order of transcendent Being into the Social Order...
“Are American women holding aviation back?” asks Amelia Earhart. This and much more can be found in...
Plato’s ideal state is not a patriarchy. In a number of ways, it actively promotes a radical...
The Republic is an exceedingly difficult text to write about. This is because it’s that rarest of...
Dominique Homberger, biology professor, is one of those “tough” profs we’ve all had. She holds her students...
Justice John Paul Stevens is retiring after a long and distinguished career with many applaudable decisions. But,...
“Blessed is the man who has gained the riches of divine wisdom; wretched he who has a...
So, how does Plato explain interaction between the Forms, which are eternal, unchanging Being; and the physical...
Via the Economist, The Tokyo municipal government is now considering extending their child pornography laws to protect...
Parmenides clearly had an influence on Plato. The assertion that we live in a world of appearances,...
