Ghulf Genes

Speaking of orienting oneself in time, I’ve become quite fond of well-constructed timelines, certainly reading them—but above all in the va...

Herewith a story: According to the tradition, Gyges was a shepherd in the service of the king of Lydia; there was a great storm, and an ea...

One of the most striking features of Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War is how modern that account sounds to our ears. That war—I think of i...

As Harriet followed Miss Lydgate across the lawn, she was visited by an enormous nostalgia. If only one could come back to this quiet place,...

It was in C.G. Jung’s writings that I first encountered the rather useful concept of projection. Jung held that the collective unconscious h...

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