Having lunch with the 14th Most Dangerous Person in the World is less scary than you might think. Read The Rest ☞Filed under: Recommended Reading

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In Tom Stoppard’s 1970 play “Jumpers,” the philosopher hero broods unhappily on the inexorable rise of the atheist: “The tide is running his way, and it is a tide which has turned only once in human history. . . . Read The Rest ☞Filed under: Recommended Reading

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William Butler Yeats died 75 years ago today at 2.30pm in a small upstairs room at the Hôtel Idéal Séjour in Roquebrune Cap Martin. The room had a wrought-iron balcony overlooking the Mediterranean, his final vista. Read The Rest ☞Filed under: Recommended Reading

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There are two St Cyprians. One is a martyr of the early church – a third-century bishop of Carthage who was put to death in AD258 by a proconsul of the emperor Valerian after refusing to pay obeisance to the pagan gods. Read The Rest ☞Filed under: Recommended Reading

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A couple of months ago in this space, we said farewell to Arthur Danto, the philosopher and art critic, who died last fall at eighty-nine. Professor Danto had interests in philosophy that were distinct from his interest in art, but there was one area of overlap. Read The Rest ☞Filed under: Recommended Reading

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