Word: essays
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Published with the new translation is Cohen's "A Guide to the Principia," a companion essay that introduces each section of the book and develops the main ideas...
DIED. WILT ("The Stilt") CHAMBERLAIN, 63, 7 ft. 1 in., "gentle giant" of the NBA and the only player to have scored 100 points in a game; of congestive heart failure; in Bel Air, Calif. (see EULOGY and ESSAY...
...informative analysis of the recent spate of fictionalized memoirs [ESSAY, Oct. 4], Charles Krauthammer bewails "how far we've come in bending the notion of historical truth." One cannot help wondering why he did not mention the four most widely known examples of apologetically inspired fictionalization: the canonical Gospels. Krauthammer's examples of "brazen confabulators who make up their histories and the slavish academics who justify them" are simply following the examples of the ancient Evangelists and the modern Evangelicals. What goes around comes around. THOMAS W. HALL JR. Foster...
Having bartered my way into Harvard with an essay bemoaning the difficulty of being a "normal" gay person (or, better yet, "just a person") in face of drag queens and leather daddies, I can understand the repudiation of naughty queers who apparently embody the very homophobic stereotypes that wound us so badly. Why can't they just be normal, decent and respectable like...
Congratulations to Charles Krauthammer on his serious and funny exposition of the dynastic impulse in democracies [ESSAY, Sept...