Humorous Irish tales for children by Eddie Lenihan
Some Irish people might remember Eddie Lenihan’s Ten minute tales from children’s tv back in the eighties. If not you should see if you can find some of his videos on...
19 May 2019
The war that killed Achilles by Caroline Alexander
The Illiad is one of those books pretty much everyone has heard of, and most have an idea of the storyline, but not as many have actually read it. I did...
16 May 2019
A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation Of The Inequality Among Mankind by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
This is one of the readings for The Modern and Postmodern course I’m doing. I’m not sure that Mr. Rousseau understands that sick and injured animals end up dead, that’s why...
8 May 2019
An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment? by Immanuel Kant
Available online pdf – Translation into English by Daniel Fidel Ferrer Enlightenment, according to Kant, is having the courage to make your own decisions. Many people remain uneducated and childish because...
28 April 2019
Discourse on the Arts and Sciences by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
translated by Ian Johnston – available online So I decided to start an online course, on the spur of the moment, I may drop it. We’ll see. It is titled The...
28 April 2019
The Light brigade by Kameron Hurley
In the future countries and states have been replaced by corporations. Capitalism has reached its full potential, or its full horror. The poor and desperate try to earn residency and eventually...
27 April 2019
from The Light brigade by Kameron Hurley
What I learned, as I looked back on those times, was that the lies are what sustained us. The lies kept us going. Gave us hope. Without lies we have to...
21 April 2019
Amateur: a true story about what makes a man
Thomas Page McBee is in training for a fight, a white collar charity boxing match in Madison Square Garden. If is goes ahead he will be the first trans man to...
20 April 2019
The ear by Piret Raud
First published in Estonian as Kõrv, 2019 This is such an odd little book. It tells the tale of an ear who wakes one day to find that their head is...
10 April 2019
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