Month: June 2007

hen George Plimpton paid Aram Saroyan $1,500 for a poem consisting of a single misspelled word “lighght,” an Iowa congressional aide dared to ask the dilettantish Plimpton what the …

The last half of the Chesterbelloc isn’t nearly as quotable as the first half, but if I had to pick the book with most quotables, it’d be The Path …

Geilor von Kaysersberg, writing in the early sixteenth century, divided bookish folly into seven types: 1. The fool who collects books for the sake of glory. 2. The fool …

Hilaire Belloc, commenting on the 21st-century euthanasia debate: It is worth noting, by the way, that the most sentimental people, who are loudest against the right to wage a …

He says radical things in an appealing way. Most intriguing. I suspect he’s the best shot we’ve had in 75 years to get a new philosophy into federal government.

1,000 films to see before you die. I’ll be lucky to see 50 of them, but it’s a pretty neat list so far.

“The Lord our God hates the slothful. None of those who are dedicated to God ought to be idle.” Anonymous (From Teaching of the Twelve Apostles)

“I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. …