To be a serious poetry enthusiast, or not to be a serious poetry enthusiast. That is the question. Rocking in iambic pentameter, or galloping in the […]
Collections of limericks and poetry commemorating great figures and seminal events in world history.
If there’s one thing that stands out when I think back on the philosophy courses I took at UCLA, it’s the voices of my professors. Sometimes […]
There’s a popular urban legend that says the Germans have a word for everything. It’s a cute idea. Indeed, the German language has a whole lot […]
Between 1788 and 1793, G.F.W. Hegel attended the University of Tübingen, better known as the Tübingen Stift, a Protestant Lutheran Seminary in southern Germany. During these […]
We’re barely through the first half of the first month of 2021, and we’ve already lost Phil Spector, Knuckleball Niekro, my great aunt and my next […]
The history of the limerick is something of a mystery wrapped in a wisecrack. Trying to determine who wrote the first limerick is a little like […]