Infinite Jest
Bill Burr has a great bit where he describes parenting as a 25-30 year sentence. You're sucked into a bubble, cut off from the outside world as you try to raise your kids. When you come out, you're stuck in, say, 1993 but it's
Books
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,
Hate the River-Rat!
I gotta say, I'm really enjoying Will Percy's 1941 autobiography, Lanterns of the Levee. I'd heard of it for years but never bothered to buy it, much less read it.
The prose is beautiful, if a bit ornate by today's standard, and
Study Shows You’re Nobody Until Somebody Loves You
Naomi Schaefer Riley at The Washington Free Beacon
The Antihumanist and Transhumanist Cometh
I posted this review-essay for one reason: I've been seeing Adam Kirsch's name a lot in The New Criterion and First Things (and other places). I guess his name has been popping up in those journals for years and I just hadn't noticed.
Anyway,
The Demolition of the Western Mind
Louis Markos at The Imaginative Conservative
Flannery O’Connor’s Prescription for Our Divided Times
By Christina Bieber Lake at Comment
Surviving the Metaverse
By Mary Harrington at First Things
Selections From John Wu's Translation of the Tao Teh Ching
Therefore the sage puts his own person last, and yet it is found in the foremost place; he treats his person as if it were foreign to him, and yet that person is preserved.
The highest excellence is like water. The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things,
Poetry Died 100 Years Ago This Month
By Matthew Walther at the New York Times