Anecdotal Evidence

“According to his own statement it was as an escape from the boredom begotten by retirement that the idea of meddling with authorship occurr...

Many of us share a fascination with last words, the final utterances especially of people we admire or detest. Do such words distill the wis...

A reader objects to my frequent dismissal of nature mysticism. I say this as someone who has spent much of his life tramping through woods a...

“ Decline and Fall is still worth reading, not just for historiographical, literary, and psychological reasons, but also for what we still ...

Like any reasonably honest but not too honest person, I hate making mistakes in print. It’s embarrassing and sloppy, often implying a lazy ...

“He was not at all put off by the spectacle of human imperfection.”   That’s what keeps us amused, right? As a species we’re an inconsiste...

“Thirty years old today, and all around me I feel the waters of melancholy recede. “Thirty years old! Now I’m convinced I shall not escape...