A taxonomy of quackery. For centuries, mathematical cranks have promised to square circles and trisect angles. Thus the “crackpot index”... more »
“Philosophy progresses, not by producing better theories, but by the elimination of confusion through the clarification of what, in some sense, we knew all along.”... more »
How Saul Bellow thought about America. The novelist began his career as a critic. He ended it as an eloquent guardian of the nation's soul... more »