… Storm Signals in American Philosophy Philosophy, broadly conceived, is … segment of the workaday world before the philosophy which accompanies it takes on the form of an intellectual contagion. … deliberate circulation of disease germs which kill men’s bodies—and this in fields in which we have only probable …
Contributor
… Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories, (Algonquin, 2005). His website is at www.stevenalmond.com . Steve Almond …
Criticism
… up moral defenses for the institution that made life comfortable? Is the culture of the Old South a myth? Or was … rosy and profitable future. Its traditions are turning into points of interest. It is capitalizing the Lost Cause. And … “Robert E. Lee.” Between acts I listened to the audience struggling with teacups and chocolates and fought to …
Essays
… it in the Christian Examiner in 1828, he’ll remind his audience how much this strange, homespun work once meant to … that was hawked about the country, printed on sheets like common ballads,” and it presented, in language often … (“Regard not then if wit be Old or New / But blame the False , and value still the True ”), Pope hews to the …
Essays
… the opinion as legal “argle-bargle,” relying upon Archie Comics slang, a stylistic tic to which he increasingly … Scalia’s sarcasm into earnest Kentucky law. Scalia died in his sleep in February 2016, at an exclusive ranch in … clerk to Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals and then, the following year, a clerk to Sandra Day …
… and Arnold the essayist loomed as large for literate audiences as Trollope, Meredith, Browning, Tennyson, Arnold … occasionally for the same ones; both have expressed extreme points of view at opposite ends of the political spectrum: … always been the grail of the crafty essayist’s quest. 251-262 By Morris Freedman …