Reason & Society

Philip Roth is a famous name in Jewish American literature, but I never read him or much of any of the Jewish American literature of his e...

Max Horkheimer's take on Montaigne is far harsher than that of Ivan Sviták . (See previous post and Sviták's essay on Montaigne ....

In line with an ongoing project, I finally put together a working though obviously non-comprehensive bibliography on unusual treatments of t...

I probably first read Erich Fromm's distinctive analysis of the Biblical myth of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden in his most importan...

Christianity came into the world long after the invention of bread, wine, and other elements of civilization, at a time when it was too lat...

I never got around to writing a full review, but here's a fragment adapted from a post written 30 June 2007: [In May 2007] I began rea...