George SaadJames Garfield — An American TragedyWhile I would not be the first author to notice that the United States has fallen on hard times, there is still little consensus concerning…Sep 1, 2018Sep 1, 2018
George Saad“Oedipus Rex” and the Mighty Darkness of KnowledgeThe conviction that knowledge can simply overcome ignorance has persisted since the end of the Greco-Roman world. While most intellectual…Aug 23, 2018Aug 23, 2018
George SaadTaoism: An Antidote To Popular HubrisThose who know don’t talk. Those who talk don’t know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your…Aug 16, 2018Aug 16, 2018
George SaadWhy We Must Honor the MusesIn our modern post-Cartesian culture, originality has often been resisted as a form of insubstantial idiosyncrasy. According to the common…Jul 2, 2018Jul 2, 2018
George SaadThe World is Too Little With Us: In Praise of NaturalismTerry: So what happens? He gets the title shot outdoors on the ballpark and what do I get? A one-way ticket to Palooka-ville! You was my…Jun 20, 2018Jun 20, 2018
George SaadShadows Upon Shadows, Light Over Light: Bots, Trolls, And Plato’s Enduring AllegoryTell me — do you think that these men would have seen anything of themselves or of one another except the shadows cast from the fire on the…May 7, 2018May 7, 2018
George SaadinEIDOLONRefugees by Fate, Founders by ChoiceA refugee by fate … he would continually suffer the many indignities of exile, and yet more in war, until he could found his city.Apr 5, 2018Apr 5, 2018
George SaadBook Review: Arthur Lovejoy’s “The Great Chain of Being”Arthur O. Lovejoy is one of the more iconoclastic figures in the history of American academic philosophy. Writing in the early 20th…Feb 11, 2018Feb 11, 2018
George SaadOn the Renaissance: History, Science, and the True Meaning of DataThe achievements of science since the Copernican Revolution have been absolutely astounding. When we study the ancients, we do so with the…Jan 17, 2018Jan 17, 2018