Hegel, I Hardly Knew Ye 2008-07-07 For most students of philosophy in English, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) is a stern figure, as imposing as his name. Just to mention him calls to mind the cliché of the droning professor declaiming at his podium, indifferent to the stude..read on
The Hitchens Hypothesis 2008-05-14 I am predisposed to like Christopher Hitchens. He is a witty and erudite writer. His view's on everything from Orwell to religion are often perfectly in tune with my own (though his ignorance of Nietzsche is unforgivable). It is because of these grea..read on
The Catholic Conundrum 2008-04-29 The word Catholic comes from the Greek meaning "universal". Now more than four centuries after time and the Reformation has proved the lie, I choose to use papist as the word that best characterizes this defunct and medieval appendage, as it circumsc..read on
The Printer\'s Devil 2008-03-17 At the start of the Renaissance the abbot and occultist Johannes Trithemius wrote a book entitled In Praise of Scribes. In it, he attacked the recent invention of printing and celebrates the superior qualities of the pen. How did he get the word out?..read on
Reality Bites 2008-01-26 I want the life promised me in the movies. A life of drama and adventure, of true love and the happily-ever-after. It is not hard to see why Plato banished the poets from his Republic, movies and television offer us grand expectations with no guarant..read on
Tete-a-Tete 2008-01-18 Salman Rushdie in an interview with Bill Moyers made the comment that: “atheists are obsessed with God”. I knew just what he meant.
Few people come to such an unpopular concept without spending a lot of time examining theism and its claims. Persona..read on
The Greatest Desire 2008-01-10 I learn something about myself every day, unfortunately, much of it is merely relearning what I had learned before and forgotten. This is a habit of all thoughtful people but is always more productive when shared with friends. We discuss with them so..read on
