Texts in Context: Aristotle and Alexander
In less than twenty years, Alexander the Great transfigured the world and its future.
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Sorting Through Sophistries: Appeals to Emotion (Aren’t Always Bad)
Like poisoning the well or the fallacy fallacy, we have here a set of ambivalent sophistries; they lack commitment to being sophistical.
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Texts in Context: The Legacy of Socrates
Death is normally the end of a person’s story; but for a small handful of figures, Socrates among them, things only get more interesting afterwards.
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Sorting Through Sophistries: Dishonesty in Detail
Fortune-tellers claim to divine secrets from kings, jokers, and knaves; but what is the real source of their information? And for that matter, is it information?
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Twenty-Five Top-Notch Lines in Literature
“These days people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” What’s the value of a good book?
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Texts in Context: Thirty Tyrants and One Nuisance
Socrates, though executed five years later, was arguably the last victim of the Thirty Tyrants.
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Sorting Through Sophistries: Five Words to Watch Out For
This week, we discuss five minor fallacies. Four are essentially appeals to our insecurities; the fifth is a curveball.
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Texts in Context: The Visitation of the Furies
“Pride goeth before a fall”; and Athens had much to be proud of in 431 BC.
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Why We Read Modern Books
As society changes, art changes too; but these changes are not always for the worse!
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Texts in Context: The World of Pericles
Having driven the Persians off after the Battle of Platæa, Athens entered upon its classical era par excellence.
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