The Scrapbook keeps an eye on the British press—largely because it’s interesting, and sometimes fun, to read; but also because, now and then, a little nugget emerges which tells a larger story.

Though he didn’t use this precise verbal formulation, the 19th century Pope Pius IX, in his (in)famous Syllabus Of Errors, set forth the principle that “error has ...

Jollimore (At Lake Scugog), a professor of philosophy at California State University, Chico, delivers philosophical ideas through beautifully crafted language in a third full-length collection of ...