Emily Esfahani Smith

August 22, 2019
The Provocations of Camille Paglia
The word “person” captures a concept so fundamental to Westerners that it can be jarring to discover that it once had a different meaning. Etymologically,...
February 6, 2019
Theophrastus' Personality Types
The new translation of Characters, by the philosopher Theophrastus (Aristotle's favorite student), presents 30 brief vignettes of vulgarians, dullards, and yokels who populated...