During COVID, millions of people retreated to the ‘online’ realm to explore various cultural activities that were otherwise barred on account of...
If you are new to the Symposium enterprise, or even if you’ve been reading with us for awhile, you might be...
by Eric Stull “Arms and a man, I sing.” Are the two objects of which the poet sings given in...
If you are like most Americans, you feel exhausted after work – mentally, physically drained. A friend told me...
If you are tired of the dreary political discourse of our time, one remedy is to get perspective. In particular, the...
The average time art museum visitors spend looking at a painting is 15 seconds. 15 seconds! What would happen if a...
People from all around the ancient Mediterranean world would visit the oracle located around Delphi, in Greece. The Delphic Oracle...
Trying to understand death, as La Rochefoucauld said, is a lot like looking at the sun. “Le soleil ni la mort...
Straight from childhood, we’re taught a lot of things, and not all of them are good. Questions are seen as...
Every so often I come across, or hear about, someone who wonders whether talking together about books is really all...
