by Respondeo Books | Jun 25, 2024
Last August, I heard an NPR discussion of climate change in relation to the Inflation Reduction Act, a bill designating almost $800 billion to energy security and climate change. The show’s host emphasized that, per the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...
by Respondeo Books | Feb 26, 2024
The Hebrew word אמת (emes), translated as ‘truth,’ occurs in the Torah for the first time in the 24th chapter of Genesis in verse 27. It occurs soon after in the same passage as an adjective in verse 48, and again as a noun in 24: 49. What is the structure of the...
by Respondeo Books | Jul 11, 2023
Euclid presents the reader with proofs about eyes and what they see. He gives us proofs about the height of trees and the depth of ditches. Some of the parts of the proofs are sunlight and shadows and mirrors and chariot wheels. Euclid offers comments about natural...
by Respondeo Books | Jul 11, 2023
As You Like It is my favorite among Shakespeare’s plays, but lately it has occurred to me that I have liked it for the wrong reasons. Or, to put the matter more accurately, there are many reasons and ways to enjoy this play and while I have long recognized some of...
by Respondeo Books | Jul 11, 2023
Abstract: With a view to uncovering the ultimate aims of Prospero’s “project,” I consider the two great productions of his magic: the betrothal masque of Act 4 and the harpy-banquet scene of Act 3. On the basis of a moral psychology that guides the use of his magic...
