Poetry as Socio-proctology

We've all heard of Pascal's wager- one should bet that God exists, even if that seems very improbable because there's an infinit...

There was a long tradition in China of attributing innovations in prosody to the influence of Sanskrit. Prof. Victor Mair has written some i...

Can Critical  Philosophy, post Godhra, still be considered a Baudelairian exorcism of ipseity, rather than a Baudrillardian ethic of alterit...

Perhaps a truly Private Language is impossible because, as Wittgenstein argued, we would have no way to check we were using a word properly....

They have a saying in China- “Science students look down on language students; language students look down on history students; history stud...

Landsburg's latest post has put a cat amongst the loony right, Tea Party, pigeons. How high should taxes be? High enough to cover exp...

Prof. Michael Witzel's Casaubon like  magnum opus - unifying all mythology by means of comically obsolescent scholarship- is due to drop...