On Milosz, Exile, and Humane Art
Rachel E. Hicks at Front Porch Republic
Topic
Biography
A collection of 119 issues
Matt Taibbi Is Still an Outsider
Charlie Tidmarsh at Real Clear Wire
How to Become a Great Man or Woman
For starters, read about the great men and women
Merely by thinking about certain sorts of people at all . . . we become objectively, measurably, more like them, in how we behave, think and feel. Iain McGilchrist
Ask a college professor this question:
“Did Moses write the Torah or did the Torah
One Vicious Author
You remember the 1987 movie, Throw Mama from the Train?
I learned last night that it was inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 movie, Strangers on a Train, which was in turn based on the novel by the same name.
The author of the novel?
Patricia Highsmith, a nasty
Huberman Attack
I struggled about whether to post this story. I really like the Huberman podcast and this reporter wrote this story to show (by implication) that Huberman is a fake because he has demons . . . including a big libido.
The thing is, I've always figured Huberman must have pretty serious
Was Albert Jay Nock Like Socrates?
Nock’s Memoirs is the figurative equivalent of Socrates drinking the hemlock. But both are suicides that were necessary in light of their worldview. Nock’s Memoirs is his way of getting involved: the only way he could get involved and live true to his principles.
Henry Fowler and Ernest Gowers
Henry Fowler (1858-1933) wrote A Dictionary of Modern English Usage after a career of pretty much nothing. He worked hard; he was honest and honorable, but he had never amounted to much: teacher, journalist, soldier (lying about his 57 years so he could fight), and editor.
But then, in 1925,
William Cobbett: Radical
Plough publishes pretty pieces. This piece about the 19th-century radical William Cobbett is the latest. It discusses the centralization of agriculture that took place in England in the early 1800s and Cobbett's resistance (which made him one of GKC's heroes; he wrote a biography about him)
How to Hate Jordan Peterson
My man Ayodeji Awosika came out with a great piece at Medium.com awhile back: 12 Rules for Hating Jordan Peterson.
This Jordan piece is a monster, consisting of nearly 4,000 words (Medium.com measures its stories by reading time: 265 WPM; this article is 14 minutes long . . . do
Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited
Paul Mankowski at First Things