I recently read a piece called The Straight Girl’s Secret (https://thenib.com/i-was-the-straight-girls-secret/), in which an affair of the heart comes to an end, and with it the friendship from which it originally grew, because one of the girls boasted, to admiring gossips, she had only been toying with the affections of…

To begin with, a dinosaur mythologist is any author or illustrator who writes, paints, sculpts, etc. about dinosaurs, and in so doing, gives its readers and viewers a stronger impression and greater idea of their existence and grandeur. Strictly speaking, the first Christian dinosaur mythologist is Arthur Conan Doyle, author…

The shocks of early human history, as discussed by the leads of my novella Philosophy & College Life: The students went, not quite extracurricularly, to an exhibit of extinct megafauna; — mammoths, giant ground sloths, saber-tooth cats, American camels, six-tusked elephants, giant bison, woolly rhinoceri, gigantopithecines, great auks, aurochs, aullays…

It may seem inexplicable, even incredible to many, that the multitude of American citizens, and an even larger majority in the U.S. Government, refused to observe even the most elementary health-and-safety measures against the coronavirus of 2020–2022, better known as Covid-19, and took instead every opportunity to disobey these measures…

Let the present author preface this review, with the remark that I have no shrift whatever for inconsistent critics who demand ‘complex motivations’ and ‘subtle, realistic bad guys’ in fiction, yet are content with simplistic explanations in fact. Such a double-standard would seem to require greater complexity in fantasy than…

The legends of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, are among the most recognizable of Occidental myths. The very names of Arthur and his Knights, are names to conjure the very type and symbol of heroism and honor, and the last, tragic defence of a forgotten ideal…

In Dias’ article in the Feb. 2021 edition of Mother Jones magazine (https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/02/the-almost-unbelievable-tortures-of-steven-tendo/), we find the biography of one Steven Tendo; — a sort of male Anastasia; — portrayed as the index-case of an immensely corrupt and unforgiving system of rules governing the admission of refugees. As portrayed by Dias…

Death, we might say, lies heaviest on the living. The dead, as Socrates wisely observes (Apologia), are either wholly unconscious, or sufficiently happy not to regret their deaths; and so, it is the living who must suffer perhaps the greatest sorrow of all, and the chief and source and type…

It is a phrase much despised by historians, and yet quite nearly true, “The origins of this are lost in the mists of Time”; in this case, of Christmas. As everyone knows, this holiday’s name, at least, commemorates the birthday of a legendary prophet or demi-god, whose followers, many times…