Wednesday Blog by Seán Thomas Kane

This week, to conclude what I’ve been saying. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog: https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane --- Sources: [1]  “ Signs ,”  Wednesday Blog  1.10. [2]  “ On Servant Leadership ,”  Wednesday Blog  6.15. [3]  Percy Bysshe Shelley, “ Ozymandias ,”  Poetry Foundation .

This week, for the penultimate post of the  Wednesday Blog , how machinery needs constant maintenance to keep functioning. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog : https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane --- Sources: [1]  Surekha Davies, “ Walter Raleigh’s headless monsters and annotation as thinking ,” in  Strange and Wonderous: Notes from a Science Historian , (6 October 2025). [2]  “ Asking th...

This week, how living in a culture is required to speak a language in depth. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog : https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane --- Sources: [1]  “ A Letter from San Juan ,”  Wednesday Blog  3.29. [2]  “ The North American Tour ,”  Wednesday Blog  5.34.

This week, bringing together my research and my life through wine. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog : https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane --- Sources: [1]  Thevet,  Singularitez ,  14v. [2]  Thevet,  Singularitez ,  15r. [3]  Thevet,  Singularitez ,  159r. [4]  Thevet,  Singularitez ,  15v. [5]  Émile Littré,  Dictionnaire de la langue française ,  4 vols., (Paris, 1873-1877)   s.v. « m...

This week, recent events have inspired me to think about the wide, wide world on a smaller scale. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog : https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane --- Click here to buy a copy of my book Travels in Time Across Europe which tells the stories from my year living in London that began 10 years ago this week.

This week, on the current round of redistricting sweeping through Missouri. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog : https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane --- Sources [1]  “ On Democracy ,”  Wednesday Blog  5.39. [2]  “ We, Irish Americans ,”  Wednesday Blog  6.10. [3]  “ On Servant Leadership ,”  Wednesday Blog  6.15. [4]  “ Freedom from Fear ,”  Wednesday Blog  2.6; “ Embodied Patriotism ,” ...

This week, comparing the benefits of pleasure with the rewards of good work. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog : https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane --- Sources: Photo: © Juan Valentín CC BY-NC 4.0 https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/427040191 . No modifications made. Available under public license. Image slightly cropped length-wise for podcast episode art. [1]  André Thevet,  Les Singul...

This week, how the greatest wisdom is simple in nature. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog: https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane --- Sources: Photo by Elizabeth Duke. [1]  Nikos Kazantzakis,  Zorba the Greek: The Saint’s Life of Alexis Zorba , trans. Peter Bien, (Simon and Schuster, 1946, 2014), 81. [2]  “ Elephant Tails ,”  Wednesday Blog  5.24. [3]  “ Asking the Computer ,”  Wednesday Bl...

This week, I reflect on the flexibility of the word  world . --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog : https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane

This week, I argue that we must have some degree of artifice to organize our thoughts and recognize the things we see in our world. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog : https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane --- Sources: [1]  For my recent essays referring to this current historiographic project see “ On Sources ,”  Wednesday Blog  6.22, “ On Writing ,” Ibid., 6.27, and “ On Knowledge ,” Ibi...

This week, I express my dismay at how fast time seems to be moving for me of late and how it reflects the existence of various sources of knowledge in our world. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog : https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane --- Sources: [1]  Ada Palmer,  Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age,  (University of Chicago Press, 2025), 603. [2]  If this word  epistemolo...

This week, I want to address how we recognize knowledge in comparison to the various fields of inquiry through which we refine our understanding of things. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog : https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane Art Raphael, The School of Athens (1509–1511), Apostolic Palace, Vatican Museums, Vatican City. Public Domain. Sources “ On Writing ,”  Wednesday Blog  6.27. Sure...

This week, I discuss some of the things which are common to all of us, problems we all share, and why I think we ought to look at solving those problems. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog : https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane

This week, some words about the art, and the craft, of writing. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog : https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane --- Links in this episode: Patrick Kingsley, Ronen Bergman, and Natan Odenheimer, “ How Netanyahu Prolonged the War in Gaza to Stay in Power ,”  The New York Times Magazine , (11 July 2025). John McWhorter, “ It’s Time to Let Go of ‘African American’ ,” ...

This week, on the patriotism we live in our ordinary lives. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog : https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane

In honor of Independence Day, here is a recitation of the Declaration of Independence of the United States. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog : https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane

This week, some words on endings. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog : https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane

This week, why we should not lose sight of our common humanity in a time of war. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog: https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane --- This week's sources: [1]  “ Masks ,”  Wednesday Blog  4.15. [2]   Luke 10:27 (New American Bible). [3]  St. Augustine,  Confessions   8.7 . [4]  Joan-Pau Rubiés, “ The Renaissance of Encounters and the Renaissance of Antiquities ,...

This week, the coalescence of my thoughts over the last few months about how the way we communicate today in 2025 is so rooted in our technology. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog: https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane

This week, the fourth in several scribblings about my research: borrowing from Oscar Wilde, the importance of being earnest with one’s sources. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog : https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane --- Sources: Ologies Podcast: https://www.alieward.com/ologies "Metropolis," Wednesday Blog 3.20: https://wednesdayblog.org/2023/01/11/metropolis/ . Marie V. Alessa...

This week, the third in several scribblings about my research: how studying Thevet and his world fulfills a need to find purpose in life. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog: https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane

This week, the second in several scribblings about my research: why I chose to study André Thevet and build my career on the mound of his works. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog: https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane

This week, the first in several scribblings about my research: how I connect historic places in my sources with their modern names. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog: https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane

This week, I spoke with a friend who converted to Catholicism as an adult about her conversion and how she relates to the Catholic Church as a whole. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog: https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane

This week, I reflect on the role of love in balancing between self-praise and community in a discussion of vanity. --- Click here to support the Wednesday Blog : https://www.patreon.com/sthosdkane