Philip Melanchthon on Alexander the Great, on the anniversary of the latter’s death.
E.J. Hutchinson
John Brown’s Two Bodies
Regardless of the purity of the perpetrator's motives, it is not without some justification that one might say terrorism should be frowned upon. This is a lesson that has proven difficult to learn for progressives on both the left and the right. Not so Abraham...
A Prayer from Melanchthon
A prayer found in Philip Melanchthon’s oration on Basil of Caesarea.
Dylan’s “False Prophet” and Wilder’s Alcestiad: A Supposal
Does Bob Dylan read Thornton Wilder?
Southern Jacobins?: A Historical Fugue
Exposition Southerners are often thought of--and often thought of themselves--as having been the conservatives in the American sectional conflict, desiring to preserve traditional modes of life against the innovative Northerners. But, of course, things in the...
The First Time as Tragedy, the Second Time as History
On Euripides’s Medea and the Fugitive Slave Law.
“Le Munchle de Mon Oncle”: An Epigram about Hypothetical Cannibalism
An epigram on whether uncles are what’s for dinner.
Melanchthon’s Deathbed List
A new version of an old post on Melanchthon’s thoughts shortly before his death.
Lewis’s Wilder?: On Literary Masterpieces
Thornton Wilder and C.S. Lewis on reading masterpieces.
Wilder’s Island
A possible allusion to Aristophanes in Thornton Wilder’s The Woman of Andros.