The Left Hemisphere is a Paradox Moron
It is very possible that "paradoxes are actually fundamental to reality. . . . We exist in a world, of not forms, but of paradoxes." Lex Fridman (Edward Frenkel, #370), 1:10:25
Books
A Narcissus at Christmas: Received: The Complete Guide to Middle Earth
Robert Foster: The Complete Guide to Middle Earth.
My sons pooled their money to buy me this deluxe edition of Robert Foster’s classic Middle Earth reference book. I’m not even sure where they found it, but it’s a beautiful book.
After opening it, I said, “Wow, I
A Narcissus at Christmas: Received: The Eighth Day Book Catalogue
The 23rd Eighth Day Books Catalogue. The retail price says “$7,” but the link says “$5.50.” It’s worth it either way. It came out in 2020, and my youngest daughter was pretty disgusted with Marie when it came in. “This is all I’m giving him?!?!” Marie assured
A Narcissus at Christmas: Received Jack Kerouac: Scattered Poems
Jack Kerouac: Scattered Poems
Three Things We Know About the Amazon LOTR Series
As long as I'm "on a Tolkien kick," I might as well mention that the Amazon series is apparently delayed due to COVID.
People were estimating a 2021 release date, but now it appears it'll be late 2021 or early 2022.
In the course
Looking for a Book Curator?
If you hadn't noticed, there are tons of books out there. It can be hard to find new stuff that's also "reliable" (whatever that means).
I highly recommend Eighth Day Books out of Wichita, Kansas. They're devoutly Greek Orthodox and "reliable&
What's Joe Epstein Been Saying?
A few choice passages from The Ideal of Culture (2018) and Gallimaufry (2020)
The perennial need to be on the cutting edge: "Orwell wrote that liberals fear few things more than being outflanked on the left."
Writing about his undergrad days at the University of Chicago, which was
Nock Summary
Re: Albert Jay Nock's Our Enemy, the State.
I think this minor classic boils down to a handful of points:
1. State power comes at the price of social power. If the state will take care of something, then people won't. As social power collapses, so
Tuesday
Hey, Pope Francis and I have something in common: admiration for Dostoyevsky
and
Guardini
[http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/what-pope-francis-has-to-say-about-dostoyevsky-and-guardini-76130/?utm_source=hootsuite]
.
I went on a major Fyodor kick in my twenties. I read all his major works (except
The Idiot, which, for some reason, I could never penetrate)
Tuesday
A great distinction
In his meditations on the growing tension and eventual war between the North and
the South, Orestes Brownson favored the South's “personal democracy,” which he
contrasted with the North's “humanitarian democracy.”
The South's personal democracy recognized the individual's freedom