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A Liberal Decalogue: Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments of Critical Thinking and Democratic Decency

A Liberal Decalogue: Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments of Critical Thinking and Democratic Decency

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”

John Updike on the Ethics and Poetics of Criticism

John Updike on the Ethics and Poetics of Criticism

“Submit to whatever spell, weak or strong, is being cast. Better to praise and share than blame and ban.”

Ounce Dice Trice: Exploring the Whimsy of Words in Extraordinary Names for Ordinary Things

Ounce Dice Trice: Exploring the Whimsy of Words in Extraordinary Names for Ordinary Things

Cartography for the land of linguistic imagination.

The Conference of Birds: Beautifully Illustrated Story of Belonging Based on an Ancient Sufi Poem

The Conference of Birds: Beautifully Illustrated Story of Belonging Based on an Ancient Sufi Poem

What a hopeful hoopoe bird has to do with the deepest truths of the human condition.

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