Valentine’s Day is all about romantic love, which we tend to think of as having little if anything to do with politics—it’s about a relationship between 2 people, after all. We get a very different view, though, if we consider love through the lenses of Socrates in Plato’s Symposium and in Audre Lorde’s “The UsesContinue reading “On Love”
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If Socrates Were a Chief Inspector: Louise Penny’s Armand Gamache Series
Spoiler alert: this post discusses plot elements from A Rule Against Murder, A Trick of the Light, The Long Way Home, The Brutal Telling, and Bury Your Dead. I love murder mysteries. I read a lot of them, from well-written and complex stories to “cozy” mysteries, one of the pleasures of which is their simplicity.Continue reading “If Socrates Were a Chief Inspector: Louise Penny’s Armand Gamache Series”
For Love of the World: 