Why June 1 is a Great Day to Honor the Copts
A little Coptic history, a feast day to remember, and a great drink I concocted from my garden produce.
Eric Scheske
Two Learned Men; Six Volumes
I only have the single volume "Section," but it's enjoyable
We Value Knowledge Like the Jerk-Off Values Porn
A mini-meditation on Josef Pieper's "Knowledge and Freedom"
More Snoring, Less Beltway Whoring
The Hemisphere Hypothesis won’t teach you how to wrench a lug nut off a busted tire and it won’t tell you how to deal with the beard in your daughter’s locker room. For all its highfalutin talk about brain wiring and reality, it’s about as useful
Are You Trapped in the World of Total Work?
Josef Pieper (with a G.K. Chesterton kicker) teaches us the importance of leisure
It’s commonplace knowledge that many of our best ideas hit us in the middle of the night or in our first waking moments. While we are completely at rest, not obsessed with ourselves or our
The Silence of St. Thomas, by Josef Pieper
A Micro-Review/Essay
Majeres Applies McGilchrist
Back in 2009, Iain McGilchrist unleashed The Master and His Emissary upon a world too distracted to notice its own decay.
This bestseller was merely a prelude to his magnum opus, The Matter with Things—a sprawling, 1,500-page odyssey that starts with the Master’s Hemisphere Hypothesis and ends
Pieper Primer
Christine Norvell at Front Porch Republic
Benedict in the City
My Kindle’s a cluttered attic, stuffed with a few books I pick at like a vulture when the mood strikes. Nothing I’d sink into, just odds and ends for those moments when the world’s noise gets too shrill.
One of them’s E. Michael Jones’ Benedict’s
Way of the Right Brain: Chuang-Tzu’s Genius
Seven and a half centuries before Bodhidharma started Zen by melding Buddhism to Taoism, Chuang-Tzu danced through the world.
This sly jester is second only to the old sage Lao-Tzu in Tao greatness.
Chuang-Tzu championed wu-wei—the art of non-doing, of letting the world spin without your sweaty grip on