This is the Phaedrus part of our version of the Symposium, which we put up here temporarily (we'll explain later): (Phaedrus) ...

Making last changes to the manuscript PS: It's now available as Kindle Book under this link:

This is just for the record. There's a new neologism, finally, sort-of, and we need to justify it by a fragment, yes, a fragment of some...

Let's not forget: Ku Klux Klan For anybody born after 1970: this was a Southern Lynch Brigade in full armor. And, yes, God...

By popular demand: here's the next painting, one that's spot on when it comes to Plato's Symposium. It's by Raphael and de...

Michael is working on the text side of a comic strip/graphic novel about Plato's Symposium . Yes, the philosopher, and, yes, the canoni...

...because they are always wrong. Viz : Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857) People of African descent that are slaves or were s...

And here are a few words from today's decision, composed by Justice Anthony Kennedy: "No union is more profound than marriag...

(This is a deep post in a literal sense, so don't hesitate to scroll down:) “To be a legend, you’ve either got to be dead or exce...

Deux vieilles dames [ dames ], les voyant passer [ passing ] dans la rue princ...

(scroll down a bit) The Valais in north-western perspective ...and the view now of... Athens, 416 BC  ...our view, because...

The grass is always greener on the other side...

And while we are at it, behold this: And you know what? Chris Christie had been Roger Ailes' dream candidate for the US presi...