We're on Information Overload. Here's One Solution
One forgotten ancient suggests what we might do with all of today's information
Topic
Biography
A collection of 119 issues
We Either Flee Devils or Fight Them
Toward the end of The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield tells himself he will move out West and shut himself off from everyone and everything, possibly by posing as a deaf-mute.
If he pretends to be a deaf-mute, he reasons, people would have to write messages to him on
How Not to Sacrifice if You're a Father
Hint: Don't be Rousseau
I’ve been reading some Nock. Albert Jay Nock, one of the premier American essayists of the early twentieth century and one of the founders of modern conservative/libertarian thought.
A weighty man, that Nock.
But also a disturbing man. In a 1964 biography,
Rodriguez and Maundy Thursday
From the conclusion
Toni Morrison's Rejection Letters
Melina Moe at the Los Angeles Review of Books
Listening to Podcasts at Oxford in 1374 and Kansas in 1974
Why do we love those conversational podcasts?
If you were a student at a medieval university, you listened to lectures.
And listened and listened and listened to lectures, often more than ten hours a day.
But they weren’t like lectures at today’s universities, where hundreds of students sit
Assault on Huberman
Kerry Howley at New York Mag
George MacDonald: Grandfather of Middle Earth?
Fantasy literature wasn't even "a thing" until George MacDonald came along. Timothy Larsen flushes it out.
One of my favorite "browsing books" is C.S. Lewis' Anthology: 365 Readings of George MacDonald writings.
I've also long believed that the fiction of
"Introducing a Person Who Needs No Introduction . . ."
My inadvertent love affair with book introductions. Plus a dozen introduction recommendations.
A Few Great Charles Bukowski Quotes
His headstone features a graphic of a boxer and the Zen-inspired epitaph “Don’t try.”