Author: Roy Black

The Classical Art of Memory

April 10, 2012 Memory
There was a time when human memory systems were treasured and cultivated. The technology of memorization was taught in the rhetoric classes and was deemed to be integral to public...

Concreteness

April 2, 2012 Aesop's Fables
I am always on the lookout for a fresh and unique way of describing something, especially when it can take it from abstract to concrete. Here is one from today's...

Sins of the Father…. Part 2

January 27, 2012 Appeals
In my last post I criticized Justice Scalia for the last sentence of his dissent in the Maples case. “Because a faithful application of those precedents leads to the conclusion...