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... The Poems of Thomas Hardy . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Philip Larkin -- the Eeyore of modern poetry -- would rank Hardy as high as Yeats, whom he occasionally resembles. I wouldn't go that far, if only because few lines of Hardy are outstandingly memorable. One should read poems, not lines.
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | yesterday
... to Victorian sentimentalism: Is it difficult to write well about sex? (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Thanks to people like Freud and D.H. Lawrence, a good many people feel a need to impose upon sex a weight of significance it cannot reasonably bear.
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Audio Interview with author Bruce Bawer conducted by Nigel Beale: On Islamism and Islamophobia . (Ht tip, Dave Lull.)
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... Christmas books . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... Editing Newspapers | Peter Stothard . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
... Anderson’s Pure . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) ... these thinkers differed, often dramatically, over the details. But on this big picture they were agreed. Contra Quine and the majority of contemporary academic philosophers, the ancients and medievals regarded the intellectual and the spiritual, reason and religion, as necessarily fused all the way down.
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
... Joseph Epstein on A Biography Like No Other . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... Latin Mass Appeal . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) ... Bugnini may have finally met his match in Benedict XVI, a noted liturgist himself who is no fan of the past 40 years of change. Chanting Latin, wearing antique vestments and distributing comnion only on the tongues (rather than into the hands) of kneeling Catholics, Benedict has slowly reversed the innovations of his predecessors. And...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
... Happy eleventy-first, CS Lewis . (Hat tio, Dave Lull.)
healthcare epistemocrat (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Maps matter. Especially in cognitive psychology (thanks to Dave Lull). In practice, cognitive maps for decision making don't tell you where to go or how to navigate in every specific case or at every point in time; instead, they provide sign posts, indicators of contours and textures, notes about landscapes, and other framework-related notions such as social-scaffolding nodes, platforms,...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... on the MSM: The CRU “climategate” proxy code: a primer . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) See also “Climategate” and the Social Validation of Knowledge . ... it’s important not to overstate the case. I don’t think we have anywhere near enough evidence to show that the academic consensus on global warming is completely bogus, or even close to it. Nor has it...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... more of these: Meditation on art, by a philistine . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... Not-So-Silent Cal Wrote With Eloquence. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) It is a great advantage to a president, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know that he is not a great man. When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... an essay upon the essay upon the essay. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... The Twilight of the American Newspaper . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
