Thanks a million, everyone, for your comments on my previous posts. Thanks to the later engagements by J. Allan Mitchell, Ashby Kinch, Clara Bosak-Schroeder, Michael…
I think this will be the last bit I’ll post to ITM, at least in this round of sharing. A bit of a roadmap of…
Picking up from yesterday: ….I will develop this idea in more detail below, but what must be done, first, is to argue against death being…
Today I offer my essay’s introduction (first draft!) with the hope of providing the next section tomorrow or Friday. The bulk of the rest of…
gain: so. I know others can teach 5 classes, raise a family, and publish a great blog and an awesome book (which I’m reading now…
During November and early December I briefly attained Jeffrey- or Eileen-like levels of speaking engagements. First the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, then, the following…
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…
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:…
“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…
