April 12, 2017
Midrash on Truth
The greater part of the world’s troubles are due to questions of grammar. —Michel de Montaigne He sits down. A fly buzzes around, crossing his sight. It then disappears almost […]
September 24, 2013
Against Histrionics: On Deaths and Afterlives
Compare the deaths of Socrates and Christ: They mirror each other in the setup (thinker put to death for subversion of the established order), but Christ’s death is physically painful […]