Technical difficulties resolved!
Dear readers, That last post went up before it was actually finished. (In fact, one person “Liked” it before then, which I consider especially brave, and appreciate very much.) Now it’s got all… Continue reading
Our Foundering Fathers: On Moral Facts And The Moral Imagination
Yesterday the Times published an opinion piece by professor Justin P. McBrayer entitled “Why Our Children Don’t Think There Are Moral Facts.” Like many similar pieces of modern philosophy, it begins with a debate between Professor… Continue reading
You Are Old, Father William: On “A Cure For Hyper-Parenting”
Dear readers, It has come to my attention that French people are obsessed with Pamela Druckerman. “She is so interested in us,” says one French person, who knows a lot of other French people.… Continue reading
Jurassic World: The Restored Manuscript Of The Historic Kugelmass Interview
It began as a consumer survey at the Connecticut Post Mall on September 20, 2014. Even now, we are still putting the pieces together, but some facts are not disputed by any of the… Continue reading
You’re Not Wrong, Walter: Chuck Klosterman On Watching Football
“Am I wrong?” “No, you’re not wrong, Walter, you’re just an asshole!” -Joel and Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski I’ve recently begun to question my support for the N.F.L. I suspect that the recent… Continue reading
Repression + Censorship + Digital Media = The Fappening
Lads’, Lads, or Laddie mags (magazines) (known exclusively as men’s magazines in English-speaking North America) contain non-nude photography…accompanied by articles about women (usually models or actresses)…or “guy tales” of sexual encounters. -Wikipedia This… Continue reading
Strange Fruit: Thanks to The Tree of Life, We Now Have Lucy
If, like me, you watched Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life, you probably came to same conclusion I did: all humans are descended from apes, and before that, from dinosaurs. In order to make… Continue reading
On Bach’s Cello Suites, As Played By Yo-Yo Ma
In the first place, I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do. Some of the good ones do, in a very slight way, but not in a way… Continue reading
The Way Man Makes Himself Eternal: Dante, Literature, and the Seventh Circle
TONY WILSON: “Welcome to the Wheel of Fortune. There it is, the wheel that, throughout the centuries, has been used as a symbol for the vicissitudes of life. Boethius himself, in his great… Continue reading
Reason’s Candlelight Virgil: Emma Becciu Responds About Dante
Emma Becciu, a devoted and erudite reader of Dante (in the original), has responded to my first Dante post in typically brilliant fashion, here.