Bowling Alone Reads Like a Nostalgic Look at the Good Ol’ Days
Bridget Phetasy at The Spectator
Eric Scheske
Celebrate the New Year in Edinburgh
Scomo collapsed from a heart attack near the new commercial center that he detested. Hurried and busy pedestrians left him there, figuring he was a drunken tramp, until a feeble-minded woman knelt to care for him and discovered he was dead.
That's how the writer George Scott-Moncrieff died
The Quest for Community at 70
Brad Birzer at University Bookman
Western Civilization Hit Its Apex During Advent 1273
A civilization can, indeed, advance and decline at the same time. Eric Voegelin, New Science of Politics, 132.
As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Abraham Heschel, God in Search of Man
Modern civilization is gnostic civilization. Gnostic civilization is left-hemispheric civilization.
Gnosis: Knowledge. Specifically, explicit knowledge, the kind
The Battle Between Macroculture and Microculture Is Turning into a War
Ted Gioia at The Honest Broker
Parliament Created the Great London Gin Craze
“[N]oe sort of Brandy Aqua vite or other Spirits or distilled Waters of any Kingdome Country or place whatsoever shall after the said foure and twentyeth day of August be imported into the Kingdoms of England or Ireland . . .”.
If you read the Wikipedia entries about England’s Great Gin
The Difference between "Reason" and "Rationality"
Reason
Greek nous
Latin intellectus
Reason is flexible. It resists fixed formulation. It is shaped by experience. It involves the whole living being, combining the mental and physical . . . the spiritual and material. It is the intellectual glue of sacramental existence. It is characterized by intuition.
Reason is "congenial to
How to Make a Cocktail
How Have These Ten Extensions Changed Us?
Toward the end of his life, Marshall McLuhan provided a list of the ten things that have changed us the most.
Perhaps the biggest difference between childhood and adulthood is time. The adult frantically looks for more time. The child looks for ways to fill time.
I filled a lot
Is New Year's Eve Still the King of Alcohol?
New Year’s Eve is dead.
It’s not the biggest bar night of the year. It’s not even the biggest drinking night in general.
I base those claims on a (very scientific and statistical) review of the facts.
First, I spent four minutes on internet searches, which brought