Essays in academic subjects comprising art, history, literature, biology, physics, language, philosophy, and science –
1: The Contrarian Argument Fallacy
2: How Something Comes From Nothing through Natural Processes
4: Hypothetical Heroes & the Totem of Fear
5: Nostalgia and the Romance of Memory
6: Idoru – Fake For Its Own Sake
29 October 2015 – The Death Penalty
18 October 2015: Political Correctness
10 October 2015: Theatre and Culture
8 October 2015: Anxiety and Inaction
7 October 2015: Subjectivity and Sensationalism in the Media
2 September 2015: The Prodigy Problem
10 August 2015: Behind the Why – Scholarship and Understanding
5 August 2015: The Ugly Side of Beauty
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ART AND LITERATURE
Historical Fiction & Cultural Identity
Sherlock Holmes and Telling the Truth Through Fiction
Shakespeare: Choice & Fate, Fathers & Sons
Why Art Matters – 10 May 2016
Real Fake Doors! & the Authenticity of Fiction
Religion, the Cult of Personality, and Liberation in Art (George Orwell and Eastern Philosophy)
The Conspiracy of History – Jacopo della Quercia and his Magic Pocket Watch
Hawthorne’s Letter to the Cult of Judgment (The Scarlet Letter & the Crucible)
Visually Speaking: An American Look at The Killing Fields (1984)
The Edifice of Poetic Structures
Poetry: its Forms and Traditions
The Ever-Haunted House: Art in Life and History
Proust’s Way – Life and Romance in a Search For Lost Time
Lo-lee-ta: The Exorcism of Vladimir Nabokov
Dreampool: The Immortality of Meaning
The Doctor is Sick: Dissecting Dostoevsky
Wait, This Is no Cigar – Allegory, Irony, and Metaphor
The Artist’s Eye and the Poetic Sensibility
A Critical Study of Tupac’s Changes
Subjectivity in Art and Literary Criticism
The Evolving Window: the Past Through Different Eyes
The Eukaryotic Idea: Memetic Ancestry
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