Vaya con Dios: Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023)
Casey Spinks at Front Porch Republic
Topic
Books
A collection of 328 issues
A World Beyond Us: On Adam Kirsch’s “The Revolt Against Humanity”
THE REVOLT AGAINST HUMANITY: Imagining a Future Without Us (2023) belongs in a Columbia University series titled “Global Reports.” Reportage of the views of leading figures in “the revolt against humanity” indeed occupies many of its pages. But Adam Kirsch—best known as a poet and literary critic—does much
On Jacques Philippe
I bit the bullet and bought the entire Jacques Philippe Scepter Publishing collection.
For years, I've eschewed contemporary spiritual writers. Mostly because I'm just arrogant. I figured that only the great ones can teach me anything, and you don't know who's great
Observing Limits to Re-enchant a Mute World: A Review of The Uncontrollability of the World
By Adam Smith at Front Porch Republic
Good Conversation and the Talking Cure: A Review
Amanda Patchin at Front Porch Republic
Strolling Through Spines for Solace and Sobriety
“I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.’” The man with owl-eyed spectacles, The Great Gatsby.
I sit, in a battered, leather chair. It affords me a view of all three ceiling-to-floor bookcases in my study.
The World Turned Upside Down: Tom Holland's "Dominion"
Matthew Rose at First Things
Irritable Mental Gestures, Reconsidered
James Patterson at Law & Liberty
What is a Perfect Piece of Knowledge?
An allegory, of sorts
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