Category: Feature
Gulliver’s Travels PART 1
In this first episode in a four part series, Jim Easton and Dr. Fleming talk about the First Book of Gulliver’s Travels and set the work in its historical context. The series is being offered as a gift to Charter Subscribers, and, when it is complete, the episodes will be made available at a small fee to non-charter subscribers and the general public.
Now You Get to Pay for the Ukraine War With a Recession
I just paid $6.42 for gas out here in California. Because my car now has 140,000 miles on it, I had to switch to premium to stop the engine from “knocking.” Meat at the grocery costs 50 percent more than a year ago.
Lia Thomas is More than a Woman.
If transgenders cannot pose as women athletes, why can women athletes pose as males?
HELP!
The first volume of Properties of Blood has been ready to go for some time, but I have failed to find a designer for the covers. It should be an easy task, since I want something even simpler than the cover of The Morality of Everyday Life, but I am completely at sea. I used to have people working for me who could deal with these things or a contract with a regular publisher. I am out of my element and would appreciate any recommendations or assistance,
The Ukraine Delusion
Jonathan Swift famously denied that man was a rational animal and insisted that he was only capax rationis, capable of exercising reason but rarely taking the trouble to do so. What else an explain the repeated outbreaks of folly and delusion that have marked our history?
Time Reclaimed
Twice every year like clockwork, Americans turn briefly away from the iWatches and video screens to which they have committed their souls in order to take up that most pressing question of postmodern times: Is Daylight Savings Time a good thing?
Alternatives to Fake News on Ukraine War
“Truth is the first casualty of war” is an old saying, obviously true during the Ukraine War. I hate this war with a passion, but it’s still necessary to follow it because it reveals so much about the state of the world today, especially the regime that’s destroying my beloved America.
Art for What’s Sake? Part X
“So,” Charley said after a pause, “the purpose of art—at least in the sense that you are using the word—is not simply to have an effect on the audience or reader, even if the effect is good?”
