Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος
In principio erat Verbum
In the beginning was the Word
On immigration
2026-08-02
A specter is haunting Europe once again. For a time it hid behind yet another of its ever-changing disguises, festering and growing, but its devastating effects have become increasingly evident, and impossible to ignore.
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
2025-12-06
Since I'm now, according to the famous incipit, nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita, I thought I'd write to my younger self, something I'd have liked a Virgil to have taught me as I struggled to find my way out of the selva oscura.
Dostoevsky
2024-01-01
I met Dostoevsky, so to speak, a little more than a year ago. I won't go into how I got to Crime and punishment, but reading it (in the span of a single weekend) was the principal — though not singular or initial — cause of the most profound transformation I have ever suffered: at the same time a reorientation of my life and the consummation of my personality, a reconciliation of every internal doubt I had about me and my choices (if one may call them that) in life.