The Thousand and One NightsA Book Profile By Matt McKeown “It is related, O auspicious King …” ❧ Full title: أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ [‘Alf Laylah wa Laylah], rendered […]
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The Saga of Erik the RedA Book Profile By Matt McKeown In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, but he was beaten to the punch
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The Great Conversation: Art By Matt McKeown “Art for art’s sake”; what, then, is art’s sake? Art is a difficult subject to cover, partly because it is a
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The Great Conversation: Will By Matt McKeown Is the human will free? And if so, free of what? Free will is one of the most enduring problems in
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OrwellAn Author Profile By Matt McKeown Honesty is not always welcome, in either the halls of power or the salons of culture; but there can be no art
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PlanckAn Author Profile By Matt McKeown A dry and conservative mind by temperament, Max Planck helped instigate one of the most revolutionary changes of twentieth-century Academe. By the
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The Great Conversation: Quantity By Matt McKeown Deceitfully simple on its surface, the idea of quantity reaches into some surprising places in the Great Conversation. The third section
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AristotleAn Author Profile By Matt McKeown Aristotle may be the single most influential mind in human history. To write a brief introduction to Aristotle is, by any reasonable
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WittgensteinAn Author Profile By Matt McKeown Language is the vehicle of all thought; using it clearly and correctly is, accordingly, indispensable. But is it possible? The twentieth century
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The Great Conversation: Habit By Matt McKeown Habit, Cicero warned us, is second nature. But what does that mean? Ordinarily, habit is a clear enough word. It means
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