December 2010
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On or about Setsuko Hara
Replies to a Criterion Forum topic on Setsuko Hara http://bit.ly/f9XByE http://bit.ly/gHgjzY
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“There might be a fact of the greatest significance reported by Thucydides which...”
– Jacob Burckhardt, The Greeks and Greek Civilization
“I feel honored to have been a part of this act of civil disobedience. I was...”
– Maitri, comment to ‘Hope Is Action’: Hedges and Ellsberg Arrested at White House Protest, December 16, 2010
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“Remember this: you cannot, though you owned the world, do any good in it except...”
– John Jay Chapman, Practical Agitation, 1900, Chapter 2: “Between Elections”.
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“The awaking of the better feelings of the individual is not only the immediate...”
– John Jay Chapman, Practical Agitation, 1900, Chapter 2: “Between Elections”.
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“It is not needed nor fitting here that a general argument should be made in...”
– Abraham Lincoln, 1861 State of the Union Address
Comment to the New York Times on Whose Party Is... →
WatchAndrew and Noah VanNortrand
Advent - Bonhoeffer →
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Blog Om: The Way to See America →
“I can’t pretend to look into [Obama’s] heart and understand what factors...”
– Andrew Bacevich on Afghanistan War: “The President Lacks the Guts to Get Out”
“Thirty-five years from now, America’s official century of being top dog...”
– Chalmers Johnson, quoted in Tomgram: Chalmers Johnson, Portrait of a Sagging Empire
“I was sufficiently aware of Mao Zedong’s attempts to export ‘people’s war’ to...”
– Chalmers Johnson, quoted in Tomgram: Chalmers Johnson, Portrait of a Sagging Empire
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Jacques Barzun on What is a School? →
The Sanders Amendment - Newsroom: U.S. Senator... →
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“The visible Church, the Kingdom, the community of the People of God—whatever you...”
– Bishop Edmund Forester to Henry Dobson, Bishop of Hunstanton, Friday, March 11th, 1977, in Bryan Houghton, Mitre and Crook, 1979, p. 190.
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“All the forms of prayer peculiar to and encouraged by the Church imply and...”
– Bishop Edmund Forester to nuns, in Bryan Houghton, Mitre and Crook, 1979, p. 168.
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“…Since you are to be ordained subdeacon, I wish to add a personal note on...”
– Bishop Edmund Forester to Mr. Geoffrey Baldock, St. Wilfred’s Seminary, Friday, February 11th, 1977, in Bryan Houghton Mitre and Crook, 1979, pp. 145–146.
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“..the man I think of as our permanent contributing editor is Jacques Barzun.
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– Hiram Haydn, Words & Faces, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974, pp. 207-208. Hiram Haydn edited The American Scholar from 1944 to his death in 1973.
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“The Way to See America (1954)
The Way to See America
Is from a lower berth...”
– Jacques Barzun, versified 2010 by Matthew Barzun, United States Ambassador to Sweden
Moody's says tax cut deal risks U.S. credit rating... →
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“Incidentally, I have not the slightest doubt but that prayer is the fundamental...”
– Bishop Edmund Forester to Monsignor Charles Bouverie, D.D., St. Vitus’ Mental Home, Epsom, Friday, January 21st, 1977, in Bryan Houghton, Mitre and Crook, Harrison, NY, Roman Catholic Books, 1979, p. 63.
Fasting is a kind of prayer.
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Jacques Barzun →
Aristos page on Jacques Barzun
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Sen. Sanders: My Filibuster on the Tax Deal →
Bernie Sanders embed
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WatchSen. Bernie Sanders filibustering the Obama tax cut bill
Sen. Bernie Sanders Live on C-SPAN2 →
Filibustering the Obama tax cuts.
Lucky to have Lucian
The Second Century of the Christian Era was no doubt full of talent, and if YouTube had existed it would have displayed videos as remarkable as our own. Yet Gibbon wrote of it: “The sciences of physic and astronomy were successfully cultivated by the Greeks; the observations of Ptolemy and the writings of Galen are studied by those who have improved their discoveries and corrected their...
“The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it...”
– The Art of Fiction LXXXVII by Elizabeth Hardwick, The Paris Review Issue 96, 1985 (via allthatglitters1968)
Comment to the New York Times on Voting for... →
Comment to the New York Times on Murmurs of a... →
“One of the most perfectly constructed lines in English poetry is, ‘To err is...”
– Father Ronald Knox (via myrosary)
George F. Kennan on Why Public Discussion Has...
What a pity, I find myself thinking, that [your] article could not be given the wide exposure it deserves and allowed to serve as corner-stone for a national debate on the problems and directions of American policy at this crucial post-Cold War moment. To put it briefly, the article is, to my way of thinking, in all respects excellent.
That neither this article, nor any other broad and...
George F. Kennan on Principles that Do Not Kill
And if you could bring to life some of the wiser of the American statesmen of those earlier periods and ask their opinion about the present demands for some sort of a grand strategy with which to meet all our problems, they would say, I suspect, something like the following: “Why do you want anything like that? Yes, of course, your world is complex. So was ours. But many of these...
George F. Kennan on Why History is not Science
Those of my opponents of that day who have survived into the present age would say, I am sure: “You see. We were right. The collapse of the Soviet system amounted to the unconditional surrender we envisaged — an involuntary one if you will, but surrender nevertheless. And we paid nothing for it.”
To which I should have to reply: “But we did pay a great deal for it. We...