Notes on Punctuation by Lewis Thomas* There are no precise rules about punctuation (Fowler lays out some general advice (as best he can under the complex circumstances of English prose (he points out, for example, that we possess only four stops (the comma, the semicolon, the colon and the period (the question mark and exclamation […]
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THE NAUGHTY PREPOSITION Morris Bishop I lately lost a preposition: It hid, I thought, beneath my chair. And angrily I cried: “Perdition! Up from out of in under there!” Correctness is my vade mecum, And straggling phrases I abhor; And yet I wondered: “What should he come Up from out of in under for?”
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Inventors Michael Blumenthal Imagine being the first to say: surveillance … – Howard Nemerov “Imagine being the first to say: surveillance,” the mouth taking in air like a swimmer, the tongue light as an astronaut, gliding across the roof of the mouth, the eyes burning like the eyes of Fleming looking at mold
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Now with added Portuguese subtitles. My four-minute response to interviewer Ignasi Boltó’s question about why National Socialism and Communism are often evaluated so differently. The English-only version is here: The clip is excerpted from my full interview with Ignasi Boltó of Instituto Juan de Mariana: “Stephen Hicks on Postmodernism, Western Values and Jordan Peterson.”
Nazism is Bad, but Communism is ‘Cool’? — now with Portuguese subtitles Read More »
I’ll be speaking on the theme of “Combating Authoritarianism” at this weekend’s conference. Thanks to SFL’s Cheyanne Durham and the team at The Atlas Society for making this possible.
Upcoming talk: University of Florida, Students for Liberty Read More »
Łyszczyński was a Polish nobleman and philosopher who had been working on an atheist treatise. A bishop who witnessed his torture and killing described them this way …
Religious toleration: 1689 England and Poland Read More »
I’ll be giving a short talk at my university as part of its Faculty Brown Bag Series: “Was Philosophy Responsible for National Socialism?” My answer will be “Yes,” drawing upon themes from my book Nietzsche and the Nazis. All students, staff, and faculty are invited to attend on Monday, October 1 at 12 p.m. in
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“It is not as easy as you imagine to be a pure egoist, and none such have ever succeeded. The apparent egoism of great nations and of great men is the inevitable sternness with which anyone who has his life fixed on some undertaking must bear himself. When we are really going to do something
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