The Thousand and One Nights: A Cunning Beauty
The Thousand and One Nights: A Cunning Beauty By Matt McKeown “It is related, O auspicious King …” The Thousand and One Nights is both a very complicated …
The Saga of Erik the Red: America Before America
The Saga of Erik the Red: America Before America By Matt McKeown In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, but he was beaten to the …
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The Great Conversation: Art
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 …
The Great Conversation: Will
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 …
Orwell: The Cost of the Truth
Orwell: The Cost of the Truth By Matt McKeown Honesty is not always welcome, in either the halls of power or the salons of culture; but there can …
Planck: The Grandfather of Quantum Mechanics
Planck: The Grandfather of Quantum Mechanics By Matt McKeown A dry and conservative mind by temperament, Max Planck helped instigate one of the most revolutionary changes of twentieth-century …
The Great Conversation: Quantity
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 …
Aristotle: “The Master of Those Who Know”
Aristotle: “The Master of Those Who Know” By Matt McKeown Aristotle may be the single most influential mind in human history. To write a brief introduction to Aristotle …
Wittgenstein: The Subtle Art of Language
Wittgenstein: The Subtle Art of Language By Matt McKeown Language is the vehicle of all thought; using it clearly and correctly is, accordingly, indispensable. But is it possible? …
The Great Conversation: Habit
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 …