or How He Learned to Stop Caring and Love Death. The Death of Ivan Ilych, by Leo Tolstoy[1] is a short story detailing the moral life of a lawyer. As such it is obviously interesting for a student of law and literature. Morality and law are closely related. Some may say that law and morality [...]
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The Morality of Ivan Ilych:
Posted in Literature, tagged Ivan Ilych, Law, Literature, Morality, Tolstoy on April 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A Definition of “Conservative.”
Posted in Law and Government, tagged Burke, conservative, libertarian, Locke, progressive on April 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A chain of Google searches, initiated, as such journeys so often are, by distantly related curiosities, led me to the following article at www.theamericanview.com, by Claes G. Ryn. Read carefully, this article offers a good definition of American Conservatism (and exposes the uselessness of the label). Like many conservative articles/blogs these days, this one primarily [...]
Choice
Posted in Personal/Creative, tagged Choice, depression, growing up, teenager on April 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When I was sixteen, after my sophomore year of high school, I decided to leave my home, my parents, and my school, to live with a friend of the family in New Hampshire. I made this decision because, like many teenagers, I felt home and school were two rapidly burning ends of a very short [...]
