As a young child, Saul Kripke fretted about the existence of God, read all of Shakespeare, and was invited to teach at Harvard ... more »
Beware the cult of Proust. To treat the writer as if he's beyond criticism is to ultimately diminish his achievement ... more »
“Owning a disputed, possibly wildly valuable, art work is a cruel test of any person’s aesthetic values, basic reason, and innate (often well-disguised) capacity for greed” ... more »