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“Freedom’s just another word for Je est un autre.”
Touché. And given the present thread, Rimbaud may have arrived rather more punctually than either of us had any right…
Correction to my post: it should have read “when I went to her home last summer”.
I first met Gabriele Taylor when I was a graduate student in philosophy at St. Anne’s, studying for the B.Phil.…
Dear Roger of Invisible America, Your remarks towards the end of this comment about Nat Goldhaber (I’ve got a friend…
A remembered Dreyfus remark on the Maharishi: I recall hearing Dreyfus say in a recorded lecture, perhaps twenty-five years ago,…
I just published in the new PPA and can say it was one of the most difficult, rigorous R&R’s of…
Dover, Pennsylvania pastor and parent Ray Mummert, a defender of the local school board’s decision to teach intelligent design creationism as an alternative to evolution in the schools, on opponents of the decision: "We’ve been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of the culture."
Well, you certainly wouldn’t want those kinds of folks determining the content of the school curriculum!
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