Regular observations and conversations on ways the humanities serve, or fail to serve, the greater good.
1812, 2021
Jousting with Judgmentalists
Sir Felix encounters a new group of censorious simpletons, and defeats their leader in a joust.
1607, 2021
Up A Tree
Feeling rooted in a time of fragmentation.
505, 2021
Write it out
Learning about words, and life, from writing and copying long-hand.
702, 2021
Fables for early spring
Changes in nature, including our own, beneath the surface.
112, 2020
Losing history
That the crisis of the humanities, and the loss of history, comes here and to us all.
808, 2020
The Two Ponds
A old fable that speaks to our busy lives here and now.
1304, 2020
Chaucer and Chinese medicine
How Chaucer's pilgrims enact the walking cure in springtime crisis, in line with Chinese medicine.
1603, 2020
The Renaissance is closed
How the coronavirus shows that the Renaissance is closed, and how we may recover it.
2912, 2019
The Humanities App
How an app for the humanities would help us understand the greater wholeness in technology.
2711, 2019
Three Voices for Three Ages
A discussion about technology, education, and the power of art.