Year: 2004

[P]assion dulls one’s sense of discrimination and yields in all seriousness to charms that sobriety would treat as a joke or reject with indignation. R...

I have been rather busy of late, what with soccer, lawn mowing duites, and my mother visiting I haven’t had much time to read or post. Content has been a ...

Literary/history buffs might be interested to know that on this day in 1935 T.E. Lawrence (“Lawrence of Arabia”) died in a motorcycle accident at th...

On a personal level, too, art is life intensified: it delights more deeply, consumes more rapidly; it engraves the traces of imaginary and intellectual adventur...

I know readers of this blog never tire of gaining an intimate knowledge of just exactly which books I have read. In that spirit I offer yet another list. This o...

Generalists are superficially mistaken about a great many subjects; specialists are profoundly mistaken about a few. — Walter Russell Mead in Power, Terro...