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The Agonist (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
From Henry Adams (1836-1918) "He had hugged his antiquated dislike of bankers and capitalistic society until he had become little better than a crank. He had known for years that he must accept the régime, but he had known a great many other disagreeable certainties—like age, senility, and death,—against which one made what little resistance one could. The matter was settled at last by the people....
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Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
San Francisco Design Center & Galleria 101 Henry Adams Street San Francisco, CA 94103
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USA Partisan (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
George Nathan said, “ Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the ideas of more trivial men .” Henry Adams said, “ Practical politics consists in ignoring facts .” Few have combined these sentiments better than former Vice President Al Gore. His comment before the recent Democratic national convention in Denver that, “You understand that the politics...
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Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Courtesy of the Boston Globe: Take an interactive tour of literary Boston, from Henry Adams to H.P. Lovecraft & Elizabeth Bishop.
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Anecdotal Evidence (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
“Eccentricity is, in fact, practical madness. It is resorted to, Henry Adams said in his severe and shrewd New England way, by those who are up to something shameful or stupid or muddle-headed. And, in England, most of us are.” That’s the late V.S. Pritchett ostensibly writing about Laurence Sterne. Pritchett was so generously gifted with memory, humor and human feeling he could craft an aphorism,...
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Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
When Henry Adams moved to Pearland a year ago after retiring from his job as a plumber in Chicago, he dreamed of a laid-back, stress-free life on the Texas Gulf Coast. Instead, Adams said he wakes up each morning and looks out his balcony at the Blue Ridge Landfill on FM 521 in Fort Bend County. And then the smell hits like a hamper of dirty socks.
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The Hill's Pundit Blog (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Gary Hart made the point in a New York Times op-ed last week that we enter a true new cycle in American history with the rise of Barack Obama. He cites Emerson. He cites Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. on the cycles of history. Henry Adams, he says, believed that “a period of about 12 years [...]
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds." - Henry Adams This is not going to be an...
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Glory to God for All Things (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
I normally do not comment on politics and do not plan to have discussions during this political season. However, I ran across a quote that makes a great deal of sense and certainly has bearing on the spiritual life. It is from Henry Adams’ novel Democracy: Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been [...]
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UPTOWNflavor (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Rent-A-Center, which has three stores in Harlem, donated tables and chair sets, microwaves, refrigerators and even HDTV’s to Harlem Hospital's nurses as part of their “Random Acts of Caring” initiative. [RTO Online] Harlem chronicler Michael Henry Adams writes about how the working class of Harlem have been abandoned by its politicians who at one time seemed [...]
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Out of the Woods Now (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
As I mentioned on Wednesday, I decided to post anything from this marvelous group discussion of The Education of Henry Adams that reminded me of Pynchon. Against the Day got me thinking of Adams right off the bat, and my suspicions were confirmed by Jennifer Schuessler's introductory post , in which she states that "Adams's ideas of inertia and entropy profoundly influenced Thomas Pynchon." (But how...
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No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
Black Star News Michael Henry Adams By now you've heard about how the river-to-river rezoning was approved by the City Council--- 47-to-2. Members Avella and Charles Barron, were the heroes of the day. So were a fiery group 50 Harlemites. Young, old, Black, White, Latino, straight, gay---- they angrily and loudly jeered as a pre-selected cheering section applauded the sealing of Harlem's fate. Doing...
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PurpleSlog (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
I wasn't asked, but here is my antilibrary: Real Digital Forensics by Jones et al. The Mind Map Book by Buzan et al. The Tao of Democracy by Atlee et al. Human Action by Mises The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams My amazon.com wish list is full of unread and likely never to be read books. [...]
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Dave's World (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
Dante got much of his inspiration for Divina Commedia when he was in Rome for the very first Holy Year in 1300. He was already an official from the esteemed city of Florence who had been summoned by the Pope in a dispute between the Guelphs & Ghibellines which raged between the advocates of Papal Supremacy & Holy Roman Emperor secular rule. Dante was involved in the "Haute Politique" between the two...
