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Protestants, Sea Serpents, and the Biblical Leviathan in the 19th Century
In the nineteenth century the rise of more advanced technology for oceanic exploration, the subsequent increase in maritime traffic, and the first major discovery…

The Council of Trullo on Clerical Celibacy
The Greeks rebuked Latin ideals of clerical purity.

Conrad’s Dostoevsky
Joseph Conrad's view of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Summary: Not very nice!

Plato at the Grammys
On Peter Wehner's Plato.

“From One Ivy Leaguer to Another”: A Poem on the Harvard Manual of Style (2nd ed., rev.)
On doing your own research.