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Dipping In By Clellan Coe The American Scholar, July 13, 2022 The Puente Romano in Asturias, Spain (Flickr/joanbrebo) It’s possible to dip into a favorite old book just as one can dip into a box of snapshots, to look for a remembered passage as you can a remembered photo, and after a few minutes and a few sighs, have had enough to remind oneself of past delights. Then on with the work. At presen..

The rise of the Worried Well Illness is now more fashionable than toughness. Julie Burchill (Columnist) SPIKED, 30th May 2022 Many people who go on to seek sensation-Driven lives often put it down to having bad parents and / or a lousy childhood. I had excellent parents and a pleasant childhood, but if there was one banal thing I was determined to escape, it could be summed up as Old Women On Th..

Escaping American tribalism Only personal bravery can end polarisation BY William Deresiewicz UnHerd March 8, 2022 William Deresiewicz is the author of Excellent Sheep, The Death of the Artist, and A Jane Austen Education. The End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society will be out in August. One summer afternoon when I was 23 — this was in 1987 — I was twiddling the dial on the radi..

War and Imagination by David Mason The Hudson Review Essay from the 01 2022 issue I know little of war, but that has not kept me from writing about it. The imagination goes where it goes. This remains true for soldiers and non-soldiers alike. A writer’s job is to reveal, which is not the same as the lawyer’s job, to persuade. Some veterans of war deride the writing of non-veterans, but all write..

The pandemonium of pandemic parenting by Christine Rosen, Managing Editor | The Washington Examiner, February 17, 2022 Sign up for Examiner Today Email Address List ID Check SUBMIT Not long ago, the New York Times published a story about a new and odd ritual that had emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic: Mothers screaming into the void. The women profiled in the story were from Boston and “exhau..

유치함에 대하여 김영명 한림대학교 명예교수·정치학 대학지성 2020.12.27 22:52 세상에는 참 유치한 것들이 많다. 고상하게 살고 싶어도 때로는 유치해지지 않을 수 없기도 하다. 고상하게 사는 것이 좋은 것 같아도 고상함이 때로는 지루함이기도 하다. 유치함은 유치하지만 때로는 사람을 끄는 묘한 매력이 있다. 유치한 것은 그냥 유치해서 보고 싶지 않을 때도 있지만, 어떨 때는 그 유치함이 삶에 활력을 주고 흥을 돋우기도 한다. 유치함에는 두 종류가 있는 것 같다. 알짜 그냥 유치함과 활력 유치함의 두 가지 말이다. 그런데 이 두 유치함을 언제나 잘 구분할 수 있는 것은 아니다. 유치함이란 말 그대로는 어린애 같다는 말이다. 그러나 우리는 어린이의 학예회를 보고 유치하다고 하지 않는다. 젖 달라고 징..

Essay What Preparations Are Due? Daniel Defoe attempted to teach a nation how to live in a world where the next crisis is always closer than it appears. By Travis Chi Wing Lau Lapham's Quarterly Autom, 2020 Plague, by William Blake, c. 1805. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, museum purchase with funds donated by contribution. 8.3.3 In a word, I would have everyone prepare themselves for death, prepar..

Web Essays La Havilland The movie star became a fixture in Paris, where she lived for half her lifetime By Charles Trueheart The American Scholar July 27, 2020 Olivia de Havilland steps off of a plane at Copenhagen Airport, 1957. (SAS Scandinavian Airlines, Wikimedia Commons) It’s an accident of my life that I came to know Olivia de Havilland in Paris around the time of her 80th birthday. Everyo..

Essay Leo Tolstoy vs. the Police Tolstoy’s views, particularly his strong invective against state-sponsored violence, riled authorities who consequently placed the writer under near constant police surveillance.Credit...Adam Maida; photo left: Keith Bedford/Bloomberg News By Jennifer Wilson The New York Times June 25, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET In the early months of lockdown, many people stuck at home ..

The War on CoffeeThe history of caffeine and capitalism can get surprisingly heated By Adam Gopnik The New Yorker April 27, 2020 Issue April 20, 2020 (....In the Oromo culture of western Ethiopia, the coffee bean’s resemblance to a woman’s sexual organs has given birth to another bun-qalle ceremony with such heavy sexual significance....) “What would life be without coffe..