Joseph L. Pappin III is Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina. He is author of The Metaphysics of Edmund Burke (1993) and has been editor of Studies in Burke and His Time since the journal’s revival in 2002.
I couldn't help but to think of some figures on X when I read this:
"Moreover, it is possible that Somer was, as Shakespeare’s Hamlet himself, both mad and acting mad—both a (semi-) natural fool as well as someone who constructed the exterior personality of a fool.
Jesse Russell…