What We’re Reading
Dante, Paradiso. So far this year, I have had the privilege of leading a class through Dante’s Divine Comedy. Approaching the end of the epic pilgrimage, Paradiso…
Creating a Nightmare: Henry Fuseli and the “The Nightmare”
Henry Fuseli was born on February 7, 1741, in Zürich, Switzerland. Originally named Johann Heinrich Füssli at birth, Fuseli saw himself engrossed in his father’s artistic endeavors…
Revisiting a Classic: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
After a friend mentioned reading The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov recently, not to be confused with the Silver Age Russian philosopher Sergei Bulgakov, who lived…
Sparta and the Scots
Adam Ferguson (1723-1816) is a lesser-known contemporary of his fellow Scots, Adam Smith (1723-1790) and David Hume (1711-1766). Though he shares much common ground with those two…
The Real Battle of AI: Destined to Be Prometheus or to Rise Towards the Peaks of Olympus
The Stalemate in Understanding the Role of Technology Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a part of the human imagination for a long time. Both the potential dangers…
Versing the Mystery
How small that is, with which we wrestle, what wrestles with us, how immense? ~ Rainier Maria Rilke, Book of Images Christopher Villiers’ newest book of…
Responsibly and Realistically Sentient
“We still have judgement here, that we but teach Bloody instructions, which being taught return To plague the inventor.” ~ Macbeth The “mythology of technology” is…
So Long Lives This: Sonnet 18 and the Glory of the Patron
If you were to type “greatest love poems of all time” into any search engine, you would find that in every decent list, there are several poems…
Antiques & Collectibles
For C. G. 1 Remember how you wrote to me when Your father died, that it was difficult Navigating the vacancy: I have repeated This phrase to…
The Irony of Modern Environmentalism
Do we still care about nature as a part of our existence or as a tool we use to satisfy our demand for morality and political agenda?…
Machiavelli and the Modern World
I have rarely had the pleasure of reviewing a book written by a former teacher. In this case, it is also a daunting task given that the…