Author: Ophelia Benson

Perhaps the most pro-business presidency the US has ever endured.

What was lost in judiciousness was gained in verve.

‘How can the moral law be both a fact of reason and in need of justification by faith?’

Is there any connection between the way we think and the way we live? Surely yes, but do biographers know what the connections are?

What is and what is not at issue in the disagreements.

Michael Ruse says they can.

Cynthia Ozick believes stories occupy a realm separate from life, and that includes politics.

Kingsley Amis thought of boredom as a form of tyranny.

Philosophers and political theorists disagree with popular belief that special rewards are deserved.

And they talk about media saturation.

Funny, ruthless dissection of the ‘Fresh Air’ mindset.

Right when he said no, wrong when he said yes.

Judith Shulevitz on making a magazine weird.

A global education? Or merely a little Arundhati Roy here, a little Toni Morrisson there.

Misuse of scientific terms gives credibility to woo-woo.

The interrelationship between rhyme and emphasis.

Martha Nussbaum on John Rawls in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Charlotte Allen looks at Wicca.

Freud’s stories.