Originally published in ClassisVolume XX, No. 3 In English, we speak of the performing arts as "fine arts." This distinguishes them as much from the liberal arts as from the mechanical or servile arts (arts directed at caring for the body's needs, such as cooking or...

Math and science: unpleasant hoops through which we must jump or a ticket to the upper middle class? Contemporary American education presupposes mathematics and science have as their purpose utility. They can get you through school and maybe even make you comfortably...

Originally published in Classis Volume XXX, No. 2 NFL games are sometimes decided by an overtime coin toss. Powerball by six arbitrary numbers. The study of history discloses other examples of chance events shaping outcomes. Croesus was almost killed because of an...