Roberto Calasso, "The Ruin of Kasch," 2023, 790 views in 2025. This post has gotten more than 2,000 views in all, which I supposed makes me one of the chief expositors of this difficult book; I mean, how many people can have searched for reviews of this book? I can't imagine it gets assigned in many classes.
Sickles, Scythes, and the Conundrum of Slow Technological Change, 293 views in 2025. Happy to see that this 2021 post on a historical qundary has gotten some traction.
Why Masturbation is Worse than Rape, 2016, 323 page views in 2025. Interesting that this post explaining the medieval Catholic church's teaching on sexuality has been popular for three years now, after sinking like a stone when I posted it. I am pleased because I found some folks online misunderstanding what Aquinas wrote about this, because they did not understand the way he structured his arguments. E.g., they did not get that the "objections" are things he disagrees with, so they were puzzling over why he seemed to contradict himself. Happy to set them straight.
Railway Spine and the Originis of PTSD, 2021, 355 page views in 2025. Just a short post wondering what it is about modern life that seems to give us so much "trauma;" no idea why anyone would read it.
Gay Renaissance Artists, Worldly Churchmen, Corruption, Tolerance, Aristocracy, Populism, Art, and Life, 2019, 410 page views in 2025. A post I like, written after I read a biography of Leonardo da Vinci.
Nicolas Berdyaev's Amazing Footnote, 2017, 528 views in 2025. I suppose my post on this famous footnote gets views because I actually opened the book and captured an image of the page, so you can see this wonder in its original setting.
Franz von Stuck, or, What Did the Symbolists Mean? 2014, 377 page views in 2025. By far my most popular post on an invidual painter three years in a row. No idea why.
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