Oddities and Curios

The Sorrows of Young Goethe

On the pain of unrequited love

Dec 5 •

Jeremy Stangroom

A. J. Ayer vs. Mike Tyson

On the genesis of a story.

Dec 2 •

Jeremy Stangroom

Love Letters and a Sleazy Seduction

How to woo like a philosopher

Nov 29 •

Jeremy Stangroom

Thomas Aquinas and His Girdle

How Aquinas fended off a seductress with a hot poker

Nov 27 •

Jeremy Stangroom

Why Bryan Magee's Memoir Was Pulped

The Curious Tale of a Libel Action

Nov 23 •

Jeremy Stangroom

Bertrand Russell and the Missile Crisis

How Bertrand Russell foretold the end of the world

Nov 16 •

Jeremy Stangroom

I'm a Lord, and Don't You Forget It!

On Bertrand Russell's title

Nov 12 •

Jeremy Stangroom

Heraclitus and Bullshit (Literally)

On an implausibly malodorous death

Nov 9 •

Jeremy Stangroom

"Baby Prick Go Home": A Separatist Storm in a Tiny Teacup

How the 1989 East Coast Lesbian Festival ended in acrimony

Nov 7 •

Jeremy Stangroom

What A. J. Ayer Saw When He Died

Logical-positivism vs. a near-death experience

Nov 4 •

Jeremy Stangroom

Man Causes Lesbian Punch-Up

Fists and tomatoes fly at the 11th Women and the Law Conference

Oct 29 •

Jeremy Stangroom

Russell vs. Ryle

A philosophical spat, played out in the letters pages of The Times newspaper

Oct 26 •

Jeremy Stangroom

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