On Used Books
The New York Times printed an interesting piece about the economics of used books. Link. According to the article, used books probably help increase the sale of new books. …
Month: July 2005
CSL’s Paganism
C.S. Lewis’s vision assumed “that pagan wisdom and mythology may furnish us with some very significant clues to things. Spenser, in his Christian epic on Charity, The Faerie Queen, …
Hooligans Need Love, Too
Germany’s determination to provide 24/7 sex continues: A German company is looking to cash in on an expected boom in the sex trade during next year’s soccer World Cup …
Did They Cast Susan Sarandon?
The evil which is abroad in Narnia when we first come into the land takes the form of a white witch. We learn from Mr. Beaver that she is …
Something for Sunday Morning
The Father of Mysticism, Gregory of Nyssa, illustrated the problem of weakness with a story about a trained monkey who danced for money. The monkey’s owner put a mask …
Is There Good Foreign Aid?
We believe in international charity. In America, our “poor” are rich, by comparison to third world countries, so we’re more inclined to ship our donations across seas. Yet, we …
Library of Modern Thinkers
We’ve started ISI Books’ Bertrand de Jouvenel. It promises to be another great offering. We’ve read the other four books in the series (Ludwig von Mises, Wilhelm Roepke, Eric …
King of the Dung Hill
Over the last decade, Schmidt has emerged as one of the nation’s leading purveyors of celebrity porn, the man who brokered the sale of Tonya Harding’s wedding-night sex video; …
The Married State
Both the U.S. marriage and divorce rates are dropping while the number of unwed couples living together is rising, according to an annual study of marriage released Monday. The …
Just the Beginning?
About 30 children, some as young as 3 months old, were left without their parents after immigration agents raided a poultry plant and took the parents away to face …
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The Weekend Eudemon
Blogging from the shores of Lake Huron, about 100 miles south of the Straits of Mackinac (pronounced, mak-in-awe, with accent on first syllable), near Alpena, Michigan. Eric is spending …