One Eternal Day

From Anecdotal Evidence yesterday: “The past has always been more interesting to me than the future, just as I have found pessimists more am...

I've been enjoying reading Michael Dirda's old essays at The American Scholar , mainly because I enjoy so many of the books he likes...

Jacques Barzun, described by Michael Dirda as "the distinguished cultural historian, teacher, and man of letters" died in 2012, ag...

On "The philosophical genius of P.G. Wodehouse" : What runs through Wodehouse’s books like a seam of gold is the idea that everyth...

I just finished an application of Miss Muffet's Revenge , a very effective spider killer/repellent that lasts for three or four months. ...

A favorite Burke quotation from his  Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). .... Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern...

In September 1947, the cover of Time , perhaps then the most important American weekly magazine, portrayed C.S. Lewis. The cover article, un...

I taught US History for many years, so no surprise that a 1912 event described by a  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article came to mind: It ...

A wise reminder from Peter Savodnik, "Don’t Fall for the Partisan Trap" : An hour and a half after Donald Trump was nearly killed ...

I continue to be a big fan of The Free Press because it is invariably interesting, tolerant of diverse political and cultural opinion, and ...

In a post at Commentary , Rabbi Meir Y. Soloveichik quotes from a speech President Reagan delivered at Arlington National Cemetery on on Ve...

Joseph Epstein, reviewing Reds : The Tragedy of American Communism : By the end of the 1920s, the various organizations had coalesced into t...

 

On Independence Day in 1862 Frederick Douglass delivered an address in Himrod, New York. This is only a small selection of passages from tha...

A post at the Facebook group "Golden Age Detection" (a private group, you would have to join to read) enthuses about one of my fav...

Greyhound (2020) is a film only recently available here on DVD although subscribers to Apple TV+ have had access to it. I have replaced the...

Re-posted because I agree even more strongly today than I did then. From Alan Jacobs on "A Long Defeat, A Final Victory" : ......

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Most of my knowledge of Shakespeare comes, not from studying the plays in English classes, but from attending annual student productions at ...

Quoted at Anecdotal Evidence  today, Samuel Johnson describes an attitude not confined to his time: He certainly retained an unnecessary and...