Greek I. 8 Imperfect Indicative, Dative of Manner
In this lesson, we are introduced to the imperfect tense in the active voice.
Category: Fleming
Charity Begins at Home
The worst ethical mistake made by Enlightenment “intellectuals” was their embrace of the abstraction of global citizenship. We big-brained apes are slow learners, and it takes most of us a long time to acknowledge the humanity of strangers.
Italian II, Unit II, Lesson 5
Remember that we have learned two types of adjectives, the first being words with masculine singular in -o and feminine singular in -a, and the second being words ending in -e in both masculine and feminine singular and -i in the plural.
Greek 1.7 More A-stem nouns, Accusative of Extent EXPANDED
As I indicated in the previous lessons, in feminine nouns, which originally ended in long A, that A becomes H in Attic Greek except when preceded by ε, ι, ρ. This only affects the singular forms.
A Not So Wonderful Life
This essay, published 35 years ago, completed the process by which we were expelled from the conservative movement and expunged from history.
Poems by John Gould Fletcher
Although largely forgotten these days, John Gould Fletcher was a very famous poet in the 1920s, and it was a great coup for the Southern Agrarians to have included his essay on Southern education in I’ll Take My Stand.
Game Plans
In a podcast of January 14, I was asked if Trump could actually accomplish some good for the American people. Partly joking, I answered:
Poems by Conrad Aiken
Conrad Aiken was born in Savannah but after his parents’ death (when he was two), he was reared by an aunt in Cambridge, Massachusets . At Havard, he and Eliot were friends and colleagues.
Anti-Semitic Semites
Is Donald Trump doing the right thing by expelling Semites accused of anti-Semitism? Absolutely.
