As This Openness
The great Czechoslovakian philosopher Jan Patočka writes in his First Essay of the Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History, “Humans […]
Category: history
Taxonomies
What we call things, and how we classify those things, is necessarily an abstraction. We take what we perceive to […]
The Crimean Tense: When Past Is Present
Referencing the past is a weak form of analysis and one that offers little insight to the current situation in […]
Times Roman
Below are some of my photos from a recent trip to Rome. This collection is of architectural ruins and art/historical […]
Legend
I don’t remember a time in my life when I didn’t know of Van Cliburn. From small-town east Texas, he […]
Gobbledygoo
“…Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.” – S. Plath Last night he found himself in an impromptu Plath-a-thon, reciting “Daddy” […]
Mindful of the Date
Seventy years ago today a small group of people meet for ninety minutes at a lovely villa in a Berlin […]
Barabbas, Son of the Father (In Our Age)
It was unanimous: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John have the Jews calling out the name Barabbas, calling out for Barabbas’s […]
The Ruination and Salvation of Life/Writing, Part III
Maurice Blanchot’s own biography—the writing of his life—attests to the experience of life as, through, and by way of writing. […]
Into the Past, Part II
Several months ago I signed up for an account on Ancestry.com, but I left everything but my most basic information […]
