We've had blazing heat for the past few weeks, followed by torrential rains, some of them the residue of Hurricane Ida; friends of ours to the South, esp in Louisiana, and to the North, esp in PA/NJ...

Well, the summer got away from me and I didn't keep up with this blog as much as I hoped.  Did you miss it?  I didn't think so.  But if you did, here are a few things I've been reading, that you might...

Today I've been thinking about ethical integrity in today's world.  In On War, Clausewitz said "In war everything is very simple; but the simplest things are very, very difficult."  Sometimes everyday...

Trying again to deliver the high-quality content you have all come to expect of me...

This is spot-on: what does reality have to do with our appetite for disaster movies?  After all it was the...

It's odd, I seem more committed to gathering the links and saving them on my computer than I am to sharing them with you.  By now I have quite a backlog.  What is up with that?  

Who knows. Anyway...

Cool links today.  People complain about the interwebs, and we should, we should, but there's a lot of smart people in the world, and they're writing interesting things, and there's always more to...

Just unleashing a bit more of the kraken here.

More information has emerged about the newspaper publisher who opposed Nikole Hannah-Jones.  This is a useful backgrounder for her decision to turn...

Nothing too exciting today--just some cool links: 

The Bryn Mawr Classical Review is a place where you can keep up with the latest scholarly work published in classics. Since they consider their...

This piece has me thinking.  Why is the US's political situation so sclerotic?  Why are we so polarized, and why is the polarization not changing?

I think one reason for this is relatively simple. We...

Happy 4th of July!  No, seriously.

It's amazing how my own understanding of the 4th has changed over the past quarter century.  25 years ago, July 4, 1996, I was in Chicago; I was a grad student, and...