PAPERS
mainly 1997-1999

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Humanities

How the Rhetoric of Nature Informs the Rhetoric of the Ethics of Cosmetics
           in A Discourse of Artificial Beauty (1662) (long)

"Extremely Hazardous": An Analysis of the Rhetorical Strategies of the Shipley-Nichol Evolution Debate (long)

Can Shakespeare's Cressid "Tame Tigers"? Unifying Reason And Emotion in the Pluralistic Self

Fruits More Savory--If Only We Could Taste Them: The Myth of the Fortunate Fall (in Paradise Lost)

Satan's Constrained Freedom (in Paradise Lost) (nice short paper)

Meno's Encounter with the Divine Things: Why Socrates Introduces Piety in Plato's Meno

Review of John Ellis, Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities

Boundary Day, Holy Day: The Sabbath in the Book of Exodus

God's Two Covenants (with Noah and Abraham)

Time, Assimilation, and the Strong-Willed Man: Jacob's Sojourn with Laban

Motifs in Shechem (in Genesis)

[some provisional reasons] Why I Am Not an Atheist

A First Stab at Religion and Science (short)

My Religion and Its Blessings (not well polished)

Benjamin Franklin's Vital Religion (to 1757)

Friend of Self, Friend of Society: The Benjamin Franklin of the Autobiography

Review of Aldridge's "Franklin's Experimental Religion"

Franklin Final Exam

A Cute Story Regarding Complexity

The Ubiquitous As

My columns in the Chicago Weekly News and the Criterion