The Puddlies

“The purpose of this initiative, and this book, is to show everybody the actual definition of impeachment as set down by the Founding Fathers, and ask whether it applies to anything that is going on now.” Melville House books has discounted copies of A Citizen’s Guide to Impeachment, which can be sent to a member of Congress of the buyer’s choice. In the meantime, maybe you’d like to get to know the other presidents?

A word from Charles Dickens’ sponsor.

Symmetry’s addictive. Beethoven sought it in the order of chords, Einstein in the logic of theory. Countless writers, too, have sought its imprint in the perfect mot juste. In Aeon Magazine, Philip Ball pleads fervently against the pursuit of beauty in logic, and logic in beauty.  “There’s a reason why our galleries are not, on the whole, filled with paintings of perfect spheres…  the search for an ideal, perfect Platonic form of the table amid spirals, hypercubes and pyramids has an air of desperation.”