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How to Think by Alan Jacobs

Posted on November 6, 2017 by Kevin Holtsberry / 1 Comment

But here's the thing.  If you are a literate and humane person, you soon begin to enjoy Jacobs admittedly oblique, discursive and conversational approach.  You ...

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Video: Barter Books and the story of Keep Calm and Carry On

Posted on August 14, 2013 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

A short film that tells the story behind the 'Keep Calm and Carry On' poster. Its origins at the beginning of WWII and its rediscovery in a bookshop in England ...

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Modernism, Liberalism & Tolkien

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Kevin Holtsberry / 2 Comments

Modern liberalism likes to think that all our problems are epistemological: we are afflicted by never knowing with sufficient clarity what we ought to do. Our f...

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