Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.” Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For …
The liberty I mean is social freedom. It is that state of things in which liberty is secured by the equality of restraint. A constitution of things in which the liberty of no one man, and no body of men, and no number of men, can find means to trespass …
When I was in college I took a class on the English Renaissance. In that class we read a lot of literature. One piece that struck me deeply and which we read heavily from was a little book called The Essays by Sir Francis Bacon. Now you are probably not …
An unintelligible multitude, A million eyes, a million boots in line, Without expression, waiting for a sign. – W.H. Auden from “The Shield of Achilles” When I was in college studying literature I took a course on Shakespeare with Professor David Brumble. He is a brilliant professor who inspired …
Count Lyov Nikolayevich Tolstoy’s War and Peace is a beautiful and fierce novel that recounts the lives of numerous Russian aristocrats both in peace and in war during the Napoleonic battles and the invasion of Russia. Within their various lives there is also an accounting of the cultural, intellectual, and …
Below is a piece I wrote and published on the Huffington Post nearly 4 years ago (can you believe it!!!) on 10/8/2014. I am re-posting it here for your viewing pleasure. The original site link, my blog over at Huffington Post, is located here – Ode: To All Of It …
Just a few weeks ago I finally finished reading the great War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. And let me tell you it is an incredible work of monumental proportions. The project of this piece is massive and extends to all of humanity and into the most rigorous and infinitesimal …
