In preparing my review of Daniel Mendelsohn’s new translation of The Odyssey, I made a detailed comparison of how it matched against Emily Wilson’s 2018 version and the 1967 rendering of the epic by…

Here is a newspaper appearance, from the Billings Gazette of 29 April 1934, of a "new" poem by Lord Dunsany. It is titled "When the Poet Sings" but when it was collected in Dunsany's Mirage Water…

Another reason for the disappearance from memory of the Bishopsgate Goods Yard disaster may be the disturbingly anti-Semitic content of the contemporary press accounts. These almost uniformly…

A collection of short stories told by a grandmother to her granddaughter about growing up in 19th century Michigan.

The Pope of the Eucharist . Quotes : "Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven." "I was born poor, I have lived poor, I wish to die poor." "My hope is in Christ, who strengthens the…

Abrahamic religions are interesting in the sense that they share a common history. More specifically, there is a certain evolution of tenets that can be traced from Judaism all the way to Islam.…

When I wrote Liberal Jews and Religious Liberty , my goal was to demonstrate how conservative proponents of expansive religious liberty exemptions would prevent liberal religious claimants from…

Did you know that praying doesn’t work? Did you know that praying doesn’t work? Did you know that praying doesn’t work? Did you know that praying doesn’t work? Did you know that praying doesn’t work?…

Milk Producing Male Goats of The Talmud (MPMGOTT)In the one-page-a-day of Talmud (Daf Yomi) cycle we are currently learning about the prohibition of cooking meat and milk together. There are several…

"An exploration of Saturn, the Tenth House, and the soul's progression through the four evolutionary stages of consciousness—from raw survival to pure svadharma."

February 8, 1912. Mt. Buckley, Antarctica. 43-year old British expedition leader Robert Falcon Scott and his four companions are three weeks past the South Pole. Nearing the finish line, they had…

Johnny was a fancy-schmancy feline. So it’s no surprise that the pampered pet lived in one of the fanciest apartment buildings in Brooklyn Heights, at 62 Montague Street. Johnny was a black…

Libido dominandi means the desire or lust to dominate. But I'm going to make this post about lust dominating us...and I feel like the latin phrase still fits. It is usually used when talking about…

My daughter asked me what her name meant, and I said it came from the Dayu Mo in the Shangshu. She looked it up on Doubao and found out the Dayu Mo is considered a forgery. As a father, I wasn't…

Literally nowhere, including the in-game profiles and stuff, have the note about Tanis...except for one specific wiki, so her sharing vision with her snakes is based on roughly nothing. However, it…

President Duke argues that anyone who transferred into a synthetic body stopped being human the moment their original brain died. I've been thinking about this argument for years, and I still can't…

20 years ago, it was common to hear people say something like “I love Hayek, but The Road to Serfdom is a bit embarrassing. Clearly not every intervention leads inexorably to…

From a letter by: Allison Rose "...That’s why Jesus Christ exists and why He did what He did. His sacrifice on the cross eliminated the need for the following: • Any and all human sacrifice including…

Populární představa staví Nietzscheho a stoicismus do přímého protikladu: na jedné straně dionýské přitakání chaosu a vášním, na straně druhé chladná racionální apatheia. Povrchní čtení Nietzscheho…

This being the 136th anniversary of the birth of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, I thought it the perfect opportunity to write another installment in my increasingly irregular Reconsiderations series. I…

I made a big mistake in my previous entry in this series.  Actually, I probably made a few dozen, not least of which was deciding to tackle this topic at all without first laying a lot more…

Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him,…

Shadows and Solid Things: A History of Religion and Archaeology in the Modern World by Kris Zimmitti will be published this November. Kris writes beautifully and has an important tale to tell about…

Pereira Maintains: A Testimony by Antonio Tabucchi, translated by Patrick Creagh (New Directions Ebook) [T]he fact is that I’ve been stricken with misgiving, what I mean is what if those two…

This Atlantic article on "Why I Quit the Tenure Track: The insufferable hypocrisy of elite academia" is quite a ride. (Paywall workaround here.) This black professor, Tyler Austin Harper, gets hired…

He disarmed the rulers and authorities and disgraced them publicly; he triumphed over them in him.

Philosophy of Life I came up with the following philosophy of life as I watched the Sun rise this morning; I hope you find it as profound and apposite as I do. We live on this fucking planet, in this…

The simplest reason of The Book of Love is for everyone, for both conservative and progressive readers of Scripture, is that love is hard. And it's hard for everyone, no matter who you are. Each of…

One of the worst incidents of the German air raids on Britain in the First World War was a stampede at the Bishopsgate Goods Yard, Shoreditch, on 28 January 1918, in which fourteen people were…

Let me tell you about Jayakarta. A harbour town built for colonial pursuits, burned and rebuilt over five hundred years, shaped by colonial rule, racial tension, and modern Islamism. Jayakarta has…

Introduction Two distinguished law professors recently offered incoming law students advice from different but unusually complementary perspectives. Vikram David Amar, writing broadly about the…

Hwæt wē Gār-Dena in gēardagum þēodcyninga þrym gefrūnon hū ða æþelingas ellen fremedon The above is the Old English opening line for Beowulf. There's been a lot of debate on how to translate the…

Due to part of my family being Polish, I kinda understand some things in spoken Polish, although not much. So for the past while, I've needed due to several reasons/wanted to learn Polish fully. But,…

Isaiah Berlin — the boy who watched the Revolution and never forgot it. Value pluralism: genuine goods conflict, no formula resolves them, and that is not relativism.

A late-Tang shipwreck exposed by a 2013 storm off Binh Chau, Quang Ngai, Vietnam, carried a Yue celadon fragment bearing the 'Qianfu' reign mark (874-879 CE). Its cargo was primarily Changsha ware,…

Rachel and I were talking about near death experiences (NDEs) some time ago when we came to the question: should these accounts be understood as what will actually happen after death? To be clear,…

At the age of twenty, Christopher Knight quit his job and left town. He had no plans. It began as a spontaneous road trip and turned into 27 years of living in the woods and committing an estimated…

People are talking about socialism because current Democratic Socialists have won primary votes, some municipal elections, and are likely to win some congressional seats. But these are accusations…

From the Perspective of Our Ancestors (and Their Modern‑Day Descendants) Gather ’round the digital fire, friends, and hear the tale of the newest “cultural defense” saga, straight…

The Moray Firth Fishing Disaster of 19 August 1848 remains one of Scotland’s deadliest fishing disasters. On the afternoon of 18 August, the weather looked promising. Roughly 800 small fishing…

Jonathon Van Maren, writing about James Herriot who wrote All Creatures Great and Small and his disposition to stay in the land he called home: Herriot never left the Dales, even when it was in his…

Fairly often, I hear a person use the term "amorphous." Once in a blue moon, the verb morph comes up in a written text or a conversation. But I don't recall EVER hearing anyone use morphous.

en particulier Marc Bloch, « Sur la réforme de l’enseignement », Les Cahiers politiques, n° 3, n°3, juillet 1943, p. 17. Un mot, un affreux mot, résume une des tares les plus pernicieuses de…

Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord (Acts 3:19). Repentance plays an important role in a fresh…

Simon Goldstein has just published the first paper in a top philosophy journal that was openly written primarily by AI: “Epistocracy and the Commitment Problem,” published in Philosophy…

Two factors about the long reach of skeptical philosophy and its practical results. Social construction of reality: If influential philosophers teach that “reality” is merely a social…

The ancient Romans were impressive engineers. The original water sources near Rome were considered unsafe–fetid swamp water and rivers polluted with human sewage. To supply the increasing…

On August 10, 2026, The Roys Report published an article about an extraordinary claim made by televangelist Katie Souza. There they report this jaw-dropping bit of news … Katie Souza, whose…

How America inherited European colonialism and its contradictions