Othello Book Review
Othello by William Shakespeare My rating: 4 of 5 stars Jealousy and its evil cousin, envy, are at once as […]
Tolstoy on Relationships
What Tolstoy does best is to show people the inner lives of people whom society judges more severely than they […]
Friendship, Religion, and “It’s a Wonderful Life”
In the closing scene of the classic Capra film, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” George Bailey’s guardian angel, Clarence, gifts and […]
Self-Betrayal
“All my life I have been lying. Even when I told the truth. For I never told the truth for […]
Solzhenitsyn on Good vs Evil
Such an insightful quote from one who knew evil, having spent many years in the gulag: It was only when […]
Want Small Feet? Read Fewer Books!
Mark Twain once said, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.” Confusion between correlation and causation has been the […]
The Gleaners
There’s a painting with a plain wooden frame that hung, I am told, in my grandparents’ kitchen when my mom […]
Silver Lining Amid Economic Woes
I have been following this story for the past few years. Here are the latest figures: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/2011/1226/The-surprisingly-upbeat-state-of-the-world
Law as Cloak
Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human […]
Forgotten Souls
In every city, town, and country, there live people long ignored or forgotten. The busy pace of daily life makes our […]
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