When I was in High School I read a book called Only Begotten Daughter, a work of speculative fiction published…
(By Michael) Introduction I want to talk about teaching history using Wikipedia, but not in the way I believe the…
By Michael Following an introduction to the idea that we actually have no genetic relationship with many of our direct…
Sharing political memes is not mentally hygienic
By Michael Hypocrisy today is considered by most to be a serious sin, “the sin of pretending to virtue or…
Traditions, in my experience, are crafted. Which is to say that they do not arise spontaneously out of the thin…
This post is perhaps more rambling than some… I have several areas where my hobbies and my academic interests intersect.…
First, a digression: several centuries ago, the English language was quite a different beast. I love to look through the…