Jul 23 2006
I would probably finish my ISI reading a lot faster if I didn’t keep posting all the passages I like. But I have to post one more from Nock, especially in light of recent discussions here: The literatures of Greece and Rome compromise the longest, most complete and most nearly continuous record we have of [...]
Jul 23 2006
The following is from Albert Jay Nock’s personal memoirs, reflecting on his undergraduate education, but it may just as well be a commencement speech at The University of Chicago: If preparation for life means accumulating instrumental knowledge as a means of getting a living, our equipment was defective. If it means laying a foundation of [...]
Jul 22 2006
From Richard M. Weaver’s Southern Essays: Reverence for the “word of God” has been a highly important aspect of Southern religious orthodoxy. Modern discussions of fundamentalism have overlooked the fact that belief in revealed knowledge is the essence of religion in its older sense, so that this point perhaps needs special emphasis. The necesssity of [...]
Jul 14 2006
Two interesting links for y’all this morning. First up, from NRO’s The Corner: We are infected with moral equivalency. Our progressives speak of multiculturalism as all positive. It’s not all about sushi, mojitos, and smoking an overpriced water pipe at a New York nightclub, though. Inherent in multiculturalism is the notion that people growing up [...]
Jul 13 2006
Fox news reports that Israel recently dropped leaflets in Lebanon with the following message, “For your own safety and out of our wish to avoid harming the civilians who are not involved, you should refrain from being present in areas where Hezbollah exists and operates.” This wording highlights an interesting modern phenomenon: the delineation between [...]
Jul 11 2006
Apparently Congress is currently debating the idea of banning online gambling because it “poses a very serious threat to our families and our society.” OK, as much as I would agree that gambling does little if anything to make anyone a better person, and in fact often corrupts them – or at least impoverishes, I’m [...]
Jul 10 2006
Michael Ledeen, whom I saw speak at UofC this past Spring, points out some interesting and disturbing relations between al Baradei and the Mullahs.
Jul 06 2006
The theme of Jayber Crow is that progress destroys much of the good accrued by time, but that it is our love for one another which carries us through and renews the good once again. Those were the words I wrote on the last page of Wendell Berry’s charmingly fantastic novel. To explain, summarize, or [...]
Jul 03 2006
If you haven’t seen this before, you should bookmark it. And then [re-]read it. Kudos to Edward O’Connor for putting it all together; it includes the full text of the Federalist Papers, with permalinks down to the paragraph level.
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