Who can say that this portrait of Mr Putin is not without insight? Look at that right eye.  Over the last week it has emerged that ...

As Australia fumbles her way through a generally unintelligent debate about anti-racism laws and freedom of speech, I am reminded that both ...

From time to time I revisit the Voynich manuscript. This is - if you are not aware of it - one of the strangest and most mysterious books i...

Recently it was announced that this city will soon have its first mosque - or "masjid" as Muslims insist on calling it. This has p...

This story closely resembles another story about which I have previously posted. The story is that a humble janitor dies and it is then di...

Someone put it to me recently that the right to vote ought not be automatic but that it should be earned. As to how it should be earned, he ...

On the matter of Aristotle, I am in a minority of one. Or at least very few. I am one of that small minority of people who is prepared ...

Reading through Diogenes Laertius' Life of Plato I found the following epigram by Timon: A man did lead them on, a strong stout man, ...

The canon of Plato's works has been supplied to us by a certain ancient authority named Thrasyllus, about whom we know very little. He...

It has long been my surmise that the vampire myths, even as they have formed in the popular imagination, are essentially anti- or counte...

I think it is very Platonic to have an ironic facade to a serious enterprise. That is the inspiration behind the Hemlock Appreciation So...

The Straussian reading of Plato depends upon knowing irony when you see it. Infamously, Straussians view the doctrine of the equality o...

The refreshing thing about Leo Strauss is that he resists a merely chronological reading of Plato. Equally, he puts into sharp contrast the ...

Leo's Strauss' reading of Plato is based in an important passage in the Phaedrus where, we are told of the deficiencies of the writ...