Goethe Etc.

I think it's time to devote some attention to Goethe again. It has been a while, but my excuse is my involvement in two projects -- the ...

The volume on the historical origins of freedom of speech was inspired, so to speak, by the Mohammed cartoons protests of 2006. As I write t...

I am encountering trouble with my conclusion to the free speech volume. I write a couple of what seems to be pretty good pages; then, there ...

Well, I am back to the free speech volume, officially entitled "Freedom of Speech: The History of an Idea," writing the conclusion...

This photo shows a group of kayaking friends, on our return after a recent after-dark outing. I am in blue, to the right of Regina, who wear...

Longinus, back in the first century A.D., wrote that the sublime "is a certain eminence or perfection of language." It was in this...