Does Bob Dylan read Thornton Wilder?
Upbuilding Discourses
“Purity of heart is to blog one thing.” -E.J. Hutchinson
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.
Shelby Foote and “Sub-Creation”
What light does Shelby Foote shed on Tolkien’s “sub-creation”?
“Bloodbath”: A Limerick
A limerick about how the White House has managed to make misleading the public not just bad, but boring.
Ciceronian Eclipse
A passage on eclipses from Book 1 of Cicero’s Republic.