Hitler’s Favorite Jew: The Enigma of Otto Weininger

5 months ago

This piece has been excerpted from a forthcoming book titled Hitler's Favorite Jew: The Enigma of Otto Weininger by Allan…

A Confederate Flag Over The Washington Navy Yard

“A large Confederate flag can be seen flying over the Washington Navy Yard,” General Ben Butler told the English war…

10 months ago

T. S. Eliot in Love and Los Angeles: A Photo Essay

The following piece on poet and Nobel Prize laureate T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), whose birthday is on Sept. 26, was written…

11 months ago

Donald Trump’s Nether Universe, and Napoleon Bonaparte

By any measure, Donald Trump was trumped by Napoleon Bonaparte. Admittedly, the US President has a rather remarkable record for…

1 year ago

Capitalism Reconsidered

What is capitalism and is it a good thing? The OED gives the following definition under “capitalism”: “an economic and political system…

1 year ago

Why Ludwig Wittgenstein Matters

This piece has been excerpted from Simply Wittgenstein by James C. Klagge, part of Simply Charly's Great Lives series. Ludwig…

1 year ago

Darwin, Evolution and Economics

Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution includes two generative components: mutation and natural selection. Mutation generates genetic variants and hence phenotypes;…

1 year ago

When the Going Gets Tough, Readers Go to Jane Austen

Jane Austen is a novelist to whom readers frequently turn when the going gets tough. Recently, Rachel Cohen’s Austen Years:…

1 year ago

Noblesse Oblige: Alan Strauss-Schom On How Napoleon III “Left France a Modern and Prosperous Nation”

Donald Trump has dramatically demonstrated how frighteningly easy it is to render character assassinations of opponents, manufacture fake news, and…

1 year ago

Understanding Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Duck-Rabbit

It was Ludwig Wittgenstein who sparked philosophical interest in what psychologists call ambiguous figures.[1] The phrase “seeing as” became a…

1 year ago