Sorting Through Sophistries:The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis By Gabriel Blanchard Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος … Should They Have Sent a Poet, Really? Language is a curious thing. Some of […]
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Sorting Through Sophistries:The Liberty to Lie By Gabriel Blanchard We have here a fallacy that is, in all probability, as old as the human race. Freedom of Thought
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Theseus called; he wants his ship back. Oh, and Bertrand Russell called; he needs to know where he can put his box full of boxes?
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In less than twenty years, Alexander the Great transfigured the world and its future.
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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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Socrates, though executed five years later, was arguably the last victim of the Thirty Tyrants.
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Having driven the Persians off after the Battle of Platæa, Athens entered upon its classical era par excellence.
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Cork (noun). An object put into the mouth of something to prevent fluids from escaping it.
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Archaic Greece saw the politics and culture of their society bloom, to a degree easily equalling the Late-Medieval Renaissance.
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Texts in Context:Darkness on the Mountains By Gabriel Blanchard Here we turn from “the contemplative Sphinx” and “garden-girdled Babylon”1 to a small, enigmatic people, as few in number
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