Sunday, August 28, was the feast day of St Augustine of Hippo, who died August 28, 430 AD.

“When you really spend time with Augustine he is remarkably vulnerable, humble, and very much imagines...

Sorry I've been quiet--just getting ready for classes.  They started yesterday for us, and I'm still getting ready for them.

But I do have the links for you.

Wow, this is a really wide-ranging...

This piece makes an increasingly common argument about how higher end needs to disenthrall itself from the spell of “growth” ideology. In some ways it’s part of a larger critique of growth coming out...

Last full week of summer, before the academic year starts next week.  This means of course that the foreshadowing of the near future has eclipsed my possibility of enjoying this week as summer, at...

Off in some part of the world that is not home, I post these links just to give proof of life.

Good interview with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, a young philosopher whose work is interesting on several...