Essays
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Lewis the Social Prophet
There is a crowd of busybodies. . . whose life is devoted to destroying solitude wherever solitude still exists. They call it “taking the young people out of themselves,” or “waking them up,”…
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Book Report
I’m not sure why, but I’ve struggled to finish books for awhile now. It feels like a small victory to have finished several lately… though this first one is still in process. After…
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Quick takes: capsule reviews of recent reads
Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? For years, I’ve been a one-book-at-a-time reader. But lately, this has changed. I seem to have multiple reads going all the time, and…
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Loading brush, and taking the measure
Andy is forced to question the worth of the advocacy that has so occupied him and his friends for so long. He knows that their advocacy has virtually no standing with professors, intellectuals,…
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Recent Reads
I’ve had different degrees of success in my reading this summer. For example, though their premises were interesting and they were in general pretty good, I fell by the wayside and failed to…
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Our Only World
When readers of Wendell Berry see that he has a new book coming out, we tend to read it on reflex. The themes are seldom new; that’s part of the appeal. We read…
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More work…?
If we have such an effective attentional filter, why can’t we filter out distractions better than we can? Why is information overload such a serious problem now? For one thing, we’re doing more…
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The Bible Tells Me… What?
So here I am, again, writing about The Bible Tells Me So — which I already reviewed here. I’ve continued mulling over the book, bothered by various things. I wanted to return and…
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Hardy Winter Citizens
My header images these days contain pictures of the birds that come to our feeders. I thought I’d do a post that matches up the images with their species. There are currently eight…
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