John Godfrey Saxe (1816–1869) was a New England poet and comic wit — of the kind much invited to be an after-dinner speaker. James Thomas Fields remains the model of such figures in that era (and so ...

The parable, ”The Blind Men and the Elephant,” tells of six blind men that touch different parts of an elephant; each forms a different and incomplete impression of the elephant. The parable reminds ...

What follows is one of my favorite stories, “The Elephant and the Blind Men.” No, my friends on the far right side of politics, this is not a story bashing the Republican Party or insulting GOPers by ...