Republicans Still Hate the South
Is anyone else tired of “conservative” Republicans like Ted Cruz, who are forever blaming the Democratic party for the KKK?
Author: Thomas Fleming
Augustine’s Confessions, Book I: 1-28 (Expanded 08.27)
The title is ambiguous. In ordinary classical Latin, confiteor means something like to acknowledge and error and/or concede a point as true. Ecclesiastical writers used it to mean something like “profess the faith.” Augustine, always the rhetorician–no matter how he strove to distance himself from his secular profession, plays upon both senses.
Religio Philologi: Augustine on Science and Magic
The lust of our eyes leads to a lust of the mind which then seeks to make experiments and gain knowledge
The International Academy of Laputa
All of this is the background to the recent scandal over the death, apparently suicide, of Jason Ardray at Cambridge University.
Italian Aug 13
First, I want to hear how you did with the first ten pages of Delitto. Any problems? Is ten pages too much or too little for one week. You should be aiming for at least 100 pages per week eventually, so as you feel more confident, let me know the rate at which you want to read.
The Odyssey–Why Bother?
The first step toward understanding the Greek mind—how they thought about human life, about right and wrong, and about politics—a word they bequeathed to us—will have to be to take a plunge into the violent world of the Iliad and Odyssey
Italian: Delitto al Pinot Nero
We’ll be taking up more subjunctive forms and uses and looking closely again at the Passato Rimoto.
Crime in the Pinot Noir
America the Savage
Right or Left, Republican or Democrat, Americans are a very sick people, and the only proof you need are the innumerable posts rushing to blame the other side in a case where no one yet knows what motivated the murderer. Of the two groups
