Alejandro Jenkins
A Few Words On Beauty
There's a wonderful "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip where Calvin wakes up in the middle of the night and calls
In the Cold Light of Reason
Reading Gnter Grass's recent Nobel Lecture I was struck by two things: it's rather disjointed--like it was written in a
A Fool's Complaint
A Harvard instructor of my acquaintance tells a good anecdote about the contrast between the American and the European educational
The Queen In Parliament
Today's State Opening of Parliament in the United Kingdom once again showcases that very British taste for traditional formalities. The
On the Subject of Blasphemy
In Flaubert's last novel, Bouvard and Pecuchet , two middle-aged copyists come into an inheritance and move to the countryside
The Misanthrope Turns Twenty
In Sylvie and Bruno, one of the lesser-known works by the author of Alice in Wonderland, Bruno tells Sylvie that
Twilight of the Simpsons
People have remarked that for me conversation is largely an excuse to quote "The Simpsons". Those who make it past
Rethinking the Meaning of Love
T hese days few ethical tenets go unchallenged by a world increasingly suspicious of absolutes. Yet in contemporary Western culture,
