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Nietzsche 26 Aug 2013 | 04:31 am
Today, August 25, is the anniversary of the death of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who died in 1900. He had been insane for eleven years, but during the previous two decades he produced an ast...
The necessity of symbolsim 15 Aug 2013 | 05:36 am
These days, the Anglican bishop Joseph Butler (1692-1752) is mainly remembered for his seeming truism "Every thing is what it is, and not another thing." In my youth I encountered this notion, as rev...
Shifting sands of politics 4 Aug 2013 | 08:22 pm
Ready for a little speculation? Well, here goes. The unexpected may be about to happen, that is the splitting in two of that incredible Neanderthal monolith, today's Republican Party. Experiencing a....
The Great Divide 24 Jul 2013 | 05:03 pm
As yet not far advanced into the 21st century, we in the US have experienced momentous changes in the quest for sexual equality. The sodomy laws, DADT, and DOMA are gone. For all time, we trust, a sta...
Untitled 21 Jul 2013 | 11:25 pm
Looking back at my career realistically, I have to acknowledge that the major phase of my gay activism and scholarship lasted from about 1970 to 1990, when the Encyclopedia of Homosexuality appeared. ...
Untitled 17 Jul 2013 | 09:30 pm
As much as I could, I tried to ration my consumption of material on the Zimmerman trial. Now I find myself incredulous about the supposedly momentous conclusions to be drawn about the case. Soon the...
Justice for all (?) 6 Jul 2013 | 05:21 pm
"[I]n extending gay men and lesbians the rights and benefits it has reserved for its dominant culture, America would confirm its deeply held vision of itself as a morally progressing nation, a nation ...
False Consciousness 1 Jul 2013 | 08:49 pm
When I was an undergraduate some fifty years ago, the field of sociology enjoyed great esteem, eliciting my curiosity. Over the years, though, most of what I read in that line has faded from memory, ...
Untitled 22 Jun 2013 | 09:10 pm
As a teenager, pondering whether to become an architect, I fell in love with the precision drawings of the archmodernist Le Corbusier (many of them for buildings that never would actually be built). ...
Untitled 17 Jun 2013 | 09:27 pm
A quick check of Amazon reveals, as one might expect, that there are hundreds of works of fiction that feature cats. Yet books that purport to be written by cats are a different matter. The first on...
