Did you know?

That one in three patients who spend five or more days in a hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) end up psychotic? That’s right kids! Keep eating those doughnuts, and you too can end up with a myocardial infarction or cerebrovascular accident that not only leaves you paralyzed from the waist down but also [...]

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Work in Progress

Now available free online for the very first time, R.G. Marrinan’s Princeton senior thesis, “BEGINAGAINS WAKE! Joyce and Beckett at the Limits of Late Style.”

Or, if you prefer to keep things old school, as it were, you can find a facsimile of the manuscript in Princeton’s Mudd Libary.

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Shadows at the Limits: Stevenson’s “Shadow March” and Eliot’s “Hollow Men”

A short piece I threw together for a senior-year seminar. It asks, “What are shadows, and how can R.L. Stevenson and T.S. Eliot shed light, as it were, on them?”
Shadows at the Limits

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The R.G. Marrinan Reader

Now up and running, right here.

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Gradutorious

A splendid essay about graduating from Princeton University by Elyse Graham, Class of Destiny.
The Ties That Bind

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The United States of America are sick.

In order to heal them, we must heal our medical system. In order to heal the medical system, we must first heal our education system. In order to heal our education system, we must rediscover the lost art of paideia.
Below is the Venerable John V. Fleming’s recipe for doing so. He is [...]

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What is φρόνησις?

“Moreover, how a man is to manage his own affairs is not plain and requires consideration. And this is attested by the fact that a young man may become proficient in geometry or mathematics and wise in these matters, but cannot possibly, it is thought become prudent. The reason of this is [...]

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