Horrified to wake up today to see that Bloomberg has ordered an overnight police raid on Occupy Wall Street. The 5,000 books in the OWS…
Our women are not adorned to please us. Indeed, they reckon adornment a burden since they wish to be beautiful not for their ornaments but…
Here’s a comment I just wrote on a student paper. It’s a long one (especially for a 600-word assignment!), but it finally articulates something that’s…
“Vn temps jadis souloit-on mettre en escrit les bonnes Cheualeries, et les estranges choses que les vaillans conquereurs souloient faire au temps passé, ainsi qu’on…
I couldn’t have done better on purpose. Yesterday afternoon, my wife and I set out to join a couple ten thousand of our Union allies…
I stumbled across a great story from the lives of the Irish saints, too great to keep to myself much longer. It goes like this:…
I saw this last night in the company of the zany charm of Marie Rivière, there to introduce it. Rivière confessed to not being a…
“The question of ecological morality is always approached as if it were a matter of authorizing or prohibiting an extension of the moral quality to…
Over the past week, I’ve been working on a piece on Chaucer’s “The Former Age” (Middle English; translation), primitivism, and pigs. I need 5000 words…
“So encompassing an animate presence has air that we find ourselves never alone, even though no one else is around. In a world where we…
