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- Constructing the Other Half of the Policeman's Beard (2021) https://www.berfrois.com/2021/05/racter-writing/ 4 comments
- Spooky Enough: Japanese yōkai figures https://www.berfrois.com/2022/12/robyn-ferrell-is-spooked-by-yokai/ 11 comments
- No Stone Unturned: Hadrian's Wall https://www.berfrois.com/2022/04/no-stone-unturned-by-farah-abdessamad/ 4 comments
- How to Be an Incipit https://www.berfrois.com/2022/04/paul-vacca-how-to-be-an-incipit/ 6 comments
- The Principles of Newspeak (1949) https://www.berfrois.com/2021/07/1984-by-george-orwell/ 134 comments
- Why I Love Lucy Maud https://www.berfrois.com/2021/06/love-maud/ 7 comments
- Letter to a young poet by Virginia Woolf (1932) https://www.berfrois.com/2019/06/letter-to-a-young-poet/ 10 comments
- Blast Canada: Manifesto Writing in the True North http://www.berfrois.com/2016/08/manifesting-canadas-identity-julian-hanna/ 2 comments
- The Poet, the Physician and the Birth of the Modern Vampire http://www.berfrois.com/2015/05/a-year-without-summer/ 2 comments
- The manuscript known as Vergilius Vaticanus is one of only three manuscripts from Graeco-Roman antiquity which preserve illustrations in more than a few scraps. An invaluable rarity dating back to around 400 CE, the Vaticanus is the oldest of the three. https://www.berfrois.com/2021/10/vergilius-vaticanus-and-the-puzzle-of-ancient-book-culture/ 12 comments books
- Albania is the Future of Europe http://www.berfrois.com/2017/04/vincent-w-j-van-gerven-oei-albania-europe-future/ 17 comments geopolitics
- Derrida on Seinfeld http://www.berfrois.com/2016/02/derrida-on-seinfeld/ 52 comments philosophy
- On Cynicism and Comedy: From Charles Baudelaire and Michel Houellebecq to Slajov Žižek and Barack Obama http://www.berfrois.com/2015/09/menachem-feuer-cynical-clowns/ 17 comments philosophy
- Philosophy is housed with the humanities, but only because they had to put it somewhere... http://www.berfrois.com/2015/03/philosophy-is-housed-with-the-humanities-but-only-because-they-had-to-put-it-somewhere/ 115 comments philosophy
- 'That sanctified anti-rural prejudice': Giambattista Vico on Philosophy http://www.berfrois.com/2014/04/what-is-philosophy-still-excluding 3 comments philosophy
- Teleology Rises from the Grave http://www.berfrois.com/2014/01/teleology-rises-from-the-grave-stephen-t-asma/ 172 comments philosophy
- there is no such thing as traditional marriage; gay marriage hardly even counts as a major change in the history of the institution http://www.berfrois.com/2013/04/talia-schaffer-romantic-marriage/ 10 comments politics
- Must Philosophers Be Parents? ("I’ve been told three times in the past year that one cannot realize one’s potential as a philosopher unless one is a parent. Implicit in this presumption is the idea that adults learn things from the children in their lives") http://www.berfrois.com/2012/12/do-it-for-the-askesis/ 181 comments philosophy
- Mad Speculation and Absolute Inhumanism: Lovecraft, Ligotti and the Weirding of Philosophy http://www.berfrois.com/2012/10/weird-philosophy/ 3 comments philosophy
- Why I'm Studying Sanskrit by Justin EH Smith - On Sanskrit as key to understanding "an independent, autonomous counterpart to Western philosophical tradition that India provides" http://www.berfrois.com/2012/09/studying-sanskrit/ 5 comments india
- Lessons from Europe’s First War with China--"The Dutch, who’d defeated the British, the Portuguese and the Spanish, whose guns and military practices were famous throughout Europe, found themselves outfought, out-led and outmaneuvered by a Chinese warlord named Koxinga, son of a pirate." http://www.berfrois.com/2012/03/koxingas-war-tonio-andrade/ 28 comments history