What is honor?

It will soon be thirty years since the implosion of the Soviet Union.

I suppose all political parties are a mixture of ideological and pragmatic elements.

Notwithstanding the recent disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, we are still very fortunate by the standards of all previously existing human populations.

It is surely one of the objects of literature to make us conversant, from the inside as it were, of the situation of others...

For many of us, when and whether to wear a mask is a painful and divisive issue.

To destroy, to smash, are primitive pleasures, and when they are allied to an ideological purpose it's a pleasure of almost orgasmic intensity.

"The mob" is out to cancel anyone who crosses it. Paris Dennard describes the problem and offers a solution.

By early March 1865, more than a million Americans had killed or wounded each other in civil war; the killing, wounding, and maiming continued for another month or so. 

I have been reading the works of Saint Hildegard (1098–1179), the visionary mystic, naturalist, scriptural exegete, artist, and musical composer.