Collected Miscellany is now on Substack
If you are interested in bits of wisdom scavenged from the interwebs in the form of links, quotes & musings from yours truly, check it out.
Author: Kevin Holtsberry
I work in communications and public affairs. I try to squeeze in as much reading as I can while still spending time with my wife and two kids (and cheering on the Pittsburgh Steelers and Michigan Wolverines during football season).
Arnold Kling on George Packer, David Hackett Fischer, Walter Russell Mead and America’s Four Traditions
Interesting discussion here from Arnold Kling: In a recent essay drawn from a forthcoming book, George Packer says that American society has fractured into four...
Reading, Re-reading and Reinventing Paul
I have something of an obsession with the idea of reading more deeply in a subject and coming away with a deeper knowledge of one specific topic, idea or area o...
Mindlessly seeking information, never finding knowledge?
I have found that it is the search for information that drives me not the knowledge I might gain per se. I want to be the person who knows things so I constant...
The Real Mary Poppins, How Foucault Won the Right & the Children’s Table of Literature
As I attempt to get back on the blogging horse so to speak, what better than that classic of blogging days past, the link collection post?
After Nationalism, Enjoying the Bible & The Politics of Catastrophe
Or, reviews of books I want to read… One of the conundrums of book addiction is that you soon collect more books than you can hope to read but you have also bui...
Those Who Disappeared by Kevin Wignall
Having read all of the awesomely named Kevin Wignall‘s books, when given the opportunity to grab Those Who Disappeared on NetGalley I jumped at the chance...