It’s understandable if you don’t think of philosophers as lovers. We have our long-standing obsession with reason over passion to blame. But truth be told, love is inherent in our pursuit of knowledge — the etymological definition of philosophy is, after all, the love of wisdom. We are ...

I was in Nori’s cafe with Doc McHugh doing what we do best — drinking coffee, shmoozing and swapping sea stories. But to be honest, I was only half there. Instead, I was preoccupied with Winter Carnival and what the next week’s onslaught would bring . For still-unkown reasons, I was ...

Memoirs are all the rage nowadays. Seems everybody is writing one (which is both the good and bad features of self-publishing). But they’ve been around a long time, although for most of their existence they’ve been called autobiographies. But they’re not identical. Broadly speaking, an ...

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” — George Santayana, The Life of Reason (1905). Last week, while trying to avoid the news of the day I channel surfed and found CNN’s series 1968: The year that changed America. (You can readily stream the four-part ...