Tango Philosophy

Last Saturday night I went to see Arrietty , a Japanese animé film produced by Studio Ghibli. It’s based on a novel from 1952, The ...

Some of you may be wondering what became of me during my two month absence from this blog. The most remarkable thing I did during that tim...

Peter Singer and an unidentified goat Last week I went to a talk by Australian philosopher Peter Singer at the University of Melbourne...

Elena Anaya and a blurry Antonio Banderas in The Skin I Live In This week, with my friend Selena, I went to see the latest film by Sp...

Something odd is happening to me. I have started reading Thomas Mann’s great work, The Magic Mountain, or to give it its original title, D...

An extended version of my blog post on anger from last week has just appeared in elephant, an online journal devoted to yoga, sustainability...

On Wednesday, I went for a walk to find a wishing well. I’d heard about this place, and seen signs pointing to it in the Morton National P...