Ghulf Genes

I simply must note here an event reported in the New York Times this morning. Two men stood in line somewhere in southern Russia waiting t...

My interest in philosophy, if it has to be assigned to some social sphere, has much more kinship to navigation, as at sea. For me it is an a...

“ simplicity IS THE ULTIMATE SOPHISTICATION. ” - L. DA VINCI The above is from a Hyatt Hotels advertisement of their Visa card in today’s N...

I was delighted to get from Brandon of Siris , as comment to the last post, indications where the wondrous motto quoted yesterday originated...

In reading books that give me facts, I can always learn something of interest even if the penumbra of interpretation the author radiates str...

It must be the new hot word among intellectuals. It means theory or science of laws, from the Greek nomos meaning law or convention. I came...

In college I did rather poorly in required science courses, owing perhaps to the disconnect I felt between an abstract and an experiential l...

Polonius : What do you read, my lord? Hamlet : Words, words, words. Many years have passed now since my first encounter with the word “epip...

Emerging as I did from a Jesuit education—which I value, incidentally—one of the amusing paradoxes I encountered was that some famous author...

It is almost a truism that “the end does not justify the means.” For that very reason, the rule or doctrine contained in that phrase invites...

Adam Smith’s Hidden Hand, Darwin’s Natural Selection, and today’s Public Opinion are instances of forces ancient people called gods or demig...