Allow me to disagree with those who agree that the disagreement between Jason and me, which was...
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).
For our friends celebrating Easter today, Le Monde has a brief slideshow of Easter events around the...
First off, I’m not sure we can say the philosophy of Parmenides exactly “works”. That is, I...
Sarah Palin: “Stall, baby, stall“. This is, of course, a variation on, “Drill, baby, drill!” That seems...
The pre-Socratic philosophers are, to be blunt, intensely fucking exciting. They really are. And I think it’s...
Sappho is one of the first and greatest poetic singers of romantic longing and the ‘bittersweet’, an...
Personally, I’m a Palin agnostic, but this line in an article in the recent Catholic Register cracked...
Oedipus Rex is an extraordinarily cruel play. Oedipus has seemingly done nothing wrong and lacks the fatal...
In a really crackerjack post, Mr. Dierkes, writes: “The hallmark of the liberal procedural republic according to...
Thinking of the Kuhn discussion, I’d like to look at how a mythical culture understands an innovation...
{Note: I wasn’t planning to post this because it’s a bit rambling and digressive. But, I realized...
Via email, I’ve been asked my thoughts on tenure and the troubles it can cause, so I’d...
Update: I’ve been asked to link to some translations. Here is the Perseus Project Symposium English translation...
Via Rogue Classicism comes a truly awesome project at Leeds: The Herodotus Encoded Space-Text Image Archive (HESTIA)....
Something’s in the air: over at the Front Porch Republic, Jason Peters rails mightily against universities as...
Taking a breather from celebrity nudity and Rob Reiner’s thoughts on health care, the Huffington Post is...
An old joke holds that historians are gossips with footnotes. This often seems true of Herodotus, the...
In keeping with Mr. Kain’s suggestion for more interaction at this party (less sitting in the corner...
If you’re in Paris, you absolutely must go see “sans objet” at Théâtre des Abbesses. As Le...
Living in a Canadian/American household, the tension is pretty high right now as Canada leads 2-1 in...
