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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

Tuesday

If you didn't hear this neat piece of news: > The new Flannery O'Connor stamp. http://t.co/JS9V5RnI2d pic.twitter.com/lerrbXaiRv [http://t.co/lerrbXaiRv] > — David Scott (@DScottLA) May 28, 2015 [https://twitter.com/DScottLA/status/603798782992605184] "Award-winning American author and devout

Book Review

Leisure, The Basis of Culture by John Pieper (1948). Choice quote: "[T]here can be unused space in the total world of work." Obsessed with efficiency? I am. At least I used to be. I'm a recovering efficiencoholic. It was bad, so bad that my time

Interesting

H.I.F. Ten books for fallen-away Catholics [http://www.patheos.com/blogs/pursuedbytruth/2014/11/top-ten-books-for-fallen-away-catholics.html] . I was expecting Surprised by Truth and the like. Instead, I got Dostoyevsky and Graham Greene. I'm not sure I agree with the author's view that these books

Paul Johnson's Intellectuals: A Micro-Review

If you're interested in biography, perversion, and modern ideas, I highly recommend Paul Johnson's Intellectuals. I read it on my honeymoon (heh, heh), so it's been awhile, but I remember greatly enjoying the min-bios on Rousseau, Shelley, and Sartre. I later read E. Michael

An Unusual History

I've been slowly making my way through Peter Marshall [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Marshall_(author)]'s Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism . At the rate I'm going, and given the length of the book (841 pages), I figure I'll finish

Friday

Kingsley Amis: "Charles Jackson's marvellous and horrifying The Lost Weekend, still the best fictional account of alcoholism I have read." I'm going to have to get that book. First, it deals with booze. Second, it's endorsed by a man of literary quality

Tuesday

Nerd Toy I bought the new Kindle Paperwhite [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AWH595M/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1] . It arrived last Thursday. I'm digging it. I bought a first generation iPod over three years ago and, other than the iPhone

More Lawrence

Last week, I featured D. H. Lawrence. I'm following up with this additional DHL that I published five years ago. I've been going back through, checking out these FtH pieces. I'm definitely going to have to consider bringing them back. D. H. Lawrence, Studies