At some point this morning between lapping the last loop of my Windsor and putting on my blazer, I hurt my neck. Twisted, wrenched, pinche...

It may come as no surprise that President Obama's recent inaugural effusions set your humble blogger on a tirade. You may, however, be ...

". . . in modern conditions Mozart would make a fortune with the products of one side of his genius which he would lose in performanc...

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If the success of a romance like The Lord of the Rings  in the postmodern 20th century is not surprising enough, consider the love of Tolki...

Classicists are a curious bunch. We come in all shapes and sizes and with all manner of creeds, but generally it's a smart and elitist ...

Directed by Lena Dunham.  Episode, "I Get Ideas." 2013. I'm sick again, and you know what that means: television. I have t...

I don't care to read about politics before breakfast, let alone before my tea and shower, but today I stepped out onto the ice and fi...

Directed by Federico Fellini. 1973. Perhaps with the exception of Mr. Hulot's Holiday , there is no film more effortless to watch th...

T. S. Eliot famously observed the nature of the heretic as, "a person who seizes upon a truth and pushes it to the point at which it...