CLIOPATRIA WELCOMES OPHELIA BENSON ...

Cliopatria welcomes Ophelia Benson to our group. She is the editor of"Butterflies and Wheels" and editorial advisor to The Philosophers' Magazine. Ms. Benson also writes a monthly column, 'Interrogations,' for TPM Online. Educated at a small girls' school at Princeton, New Jersey, she studied history at a mid-western university. She has been a zookeeper, working with elephants as well as smaller, humbler animals. When playing hooky from B&W's blog, Benson follows her advice to novice bloggers,"be interesting or shut up," and delights readers with frequent contributions at Invisible Adjunct and Crooked Timber. Readers at HNN, be warned: her intellectual heroes are Christopher Hitchens, William Hazlitt, and Montaigne.