On Gibbon and the causes of decline.
Upbuilding Discourses
“Purity of heart is to blog one thing.” -E.J. Hutchinson
Luther’s Catullus (4): Catullus and Solomon
On Luther, Catullus, and Ecclesiastes.
“I Contain Multitudes”: The Greek Dylan
"I Contain Multitudes" is the opening track on Bob Dylan's 2020 album Rough and Rowdy Ways. The title is an allusion to Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself, 51": The past and present wilt—I have fill'd them, emptied them.And proceed to fill my next fold of the future....
Luther’s Catullus (3): Catullus and the Desert Fathers
More on Luther and Catullus 64.
Is Translation Possible?
On translating poetry.
Luther’s Catullus (2): “Pre-Protestant” Luther
Did Catullus help Martin Luther formulate the doctrine of justification?
Gibbon in a Rousseau Mask?
On history in Rousseau, Gibbon, and Burke.
The First Time as Tragedy, the Second Time as Farce (and Also Tragedy)
On Edward Gibbond and “defending Democracy.”
European Exceptionalism
Thomas Kuhn on the European background of science.
Luther on Aristotle’s Ethics (4): Solomon as “Dr. Politics” (3)
More from Luther on classical political philosophy.