Paragraph 7 of This Newman Sermon is Stunning (Plus a Thomas Sowell Kicker)
"Sermon 13: Implicit and Explicit Reason"
Eric Scheske
Introducing the Non-Story
I've been noticing a new type of Internet article: Sites making podcast episodes into news stories.
The gimmick's approach: A flashy "news-like" headline, followed by a story about the podcast's content, sprinkled with quotes, which give it the feel of a journalist
How to Use the Cold Weather
I woke up yesterday morning to the gales of November, the same that brought down the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975, according to meteorologists who said the atmospheric mix that dumped a few inches on my town is the same that brought down the mighty freighter.
I could hear a collective
Hemisphere Video
You don't want to read the 500-page Master and his Emissary? You don't want to read the 1,500 pages that flush it all out? Try The Divided Brain. You can rent it for $1.99. In just 80 minutes, you'll understand the Hemisphere
Days of Wine and Gin
Memoirs of an Oenophile
It reminds me of a book I once bought solely because of the great title: Memoirs of an Amnesiac by Oscar Levant (available at Amazon for only $147 . . . used versions as low as $27)
"Whenever I see the word 'oenophile,' I picture people
Everlasting GKC for Advent
Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote "Sweet Home Alabama" as a rejoinder to Neil Young's smug "Southern Man. Likewise, GKC wrote The Everlasting Man as a rejoinder to H.G. Wells' Outline of History.
In both cases, the rejoinders won.
The Everlasting Man explains history as part
Pixel v. Print and Five Hard Novels
I ran across perhaps the most-enjoyable Medium.com pieces of the past few months: Five Insanely Difficult Novels (and Why They're Worth the Effort).
It, for me, is perhaps the quintessential online essay.
I agree with Joseph Epstein that there is something fundamentally different between reading print and
Annual Thanksgiving Day Quotes
“Thanksgiving Day originated in New England when the Puritans realized they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians.” Mark Twain
“Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.” Samuel Johnson
“Beggar that I
Christmas Eve with GKC
In the round of our rational and mournful year one festival remains out of all those ancient gaieties that once covered the whole earth. Christmas remains to remind us of those ages, whether Pagan or Christian, when the many acted poetry instead of the few writing it. “Christmas and the
Black Wednesday Arrives
Welcome to the biggest bar night of the year. New Years Eve is for house parties. Halloween is for frat parties. St. Patrick's Day is for Irish parties.
Thanksgiving Eve is for bar parties. College kids come home and filter into the local watering hole that declined them