To succumb to pressure to suppress or disguise his true beliefs would have been, for Spinoza, a concession equivalent to ...

“Lith-o-pe-di-on a retained fetus, usually extrauterine, that has become calcified” ...

He was also the Great Deregulator.” T here is little we can say about former President Jimmy Carter—who will lie in state in ...

Johnny Payne is the arts editor at Merion West. Johnny is a poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist. He has worked extensively in Latin American Studies, especially literature under dictatorship and ...

“Doom is there staring, everywhere/I go, like a brazen coyote/dead center of the road/half-starved so it doesn’t care anymore ...

Reviving a Merion West tradition, I present here a list, though not a ranking, of some of my favorite articles that Merion ...

“Of course, the question of whether healthcare should be socialized is only a small piece of my general disagreement with [Walter] Block on political economy. Still, it is a vivid enough example to ...