The Bookshelf

Another rereading of a great novel decades later. Albert Camus' plague is a metaphor for everything that the human conscience is typi...

There is some irony in the current thinking that the origins of human propensity to moral or altruistic behavior emerged as a result of grou...

I usually discover something new in rereading a book I have not touched in a long time.  With the passage of time, there is inevitably a di...

I have an aversion to lima beans.  aver·sion,   noun \ə- ˈ vər-zhən, -shən\                                                : a strong ...

At a very early age, children learn the difference between artifacts and living things: the inanimate and the animate.  In fact, one of the ...

The scenario described in the previous post (see October 26, 2013 post ) of the mass of commuter humanity changing trains in a crowded subwa...