Ghulf Genes

Not so curiously (when I think about it) gloomy, coldish, and wet weather brings to my mind that interesting seventeenth, eighteenth centur...

Surveying the papers, at least half the time, brings to my mind one of Hobbes’ famous sayings, i.e. that the absence of what he calls “civi...

Strikes me that one symptom of a major change in culture—from a religious age to a secular—is that thinkers of the era find it necessary to ...

One knows, of course, that war will be the product of the political intercourse of governments and peoples; but one is accustomed to think t...