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Wendell Berry: a "shared stewardship of...

I would like my fellow conservationists to notice how many people and organizations are now working...

Mar 31st

“I don’t even have an e-mail address. I have reached an age...”
— Umberto Eco

Mar 30th

Mark Steyn on William Wilberforce

As he wrote in 1787, ‘God almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the...

Mar 29th

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Bill Atkinson’s pictures of rocks (in this case,...

Mar 27th

Progressive religion and eugenics

Certain kinds of religious leader gravitated toward eugenics in the early twentieth century,...

Mar 27th

“The religious ideal of forgiveness is more profound and more...”
— Reinhold Niebuhr

Mar 26th

The northwestern fells of England’s Lake District,...

Mar 26th

Les Murray, "The Meaning of Existence"

Everything except language knows the meaning of existence. Trees, planets, rivers, time know...

Mar 25th

“Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is...”
— Donald Knuth, possibly the...

Mar 24th

Peter Callesen, Holding on to Myself (2006)

Mar 23rd

from John Lanchester's new memoir,...

“If I am ever kidnapped or taken hostage,” my mother told me, “and they allow me...

Mar 23rd

This is Hoefler Text, one of my favorite typeface families....

Mar 23rd

“What students learn in their major, whatever the discipline,...”
— Alasdair MacIntyre

Mar 23rd

a job ad [explanation here]

Mar 22nd

C. S. Lewis on "Membership"

The very word membership is of Christian origin, but it has been taken over by the world and emptied...

Mar 21st

This American Life (animated)

Mar 21st

Ironic Brits in New York

The British have colonized Manhattan, acquiring minute rent-stabilized apartments in the West...

Mar 21st

La Mezquita, Cordoba, Spain (from Wikipedia Commons)

Mar 20th

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Mar 20th

“We’ll sit around talking about the good old days, when we...”
— Samuel Beckett on the...

Mar 20th

Philip Larkin, "An Arundel Tomb"

Side by side, their faces blurred, The earl and countess lie in stone, Their proper habits vaguely...

Mar 19th

An Arundel Tomb

Mar 19th

Otaniemi University Chapel, Finland

Mar 18th

Les Murray, "At the Aquatic Carnival"

Two racing boats seen from the harmonic railing of this road bridge quit their wakes, plane above...

Mar 18th

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Mar 18th

Alasdair MacIntyre on the 2004 election...

We note at this point that we have already broken with both parties and both candidates....

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Quotations

Quotations are in a perpetual struggle for survival. They want people to keep saying them. They...

Mar 16th

Tantek on the cognitive load of...

Hypothesis 1: Human interface cognitive load is proportional to the number of...

Mar 15th

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Helvetica (the film)

Mar 14th

“Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end.”
— Stephen Hawking

Mar 14th

the tomb of Agilbert, bishop of Wessex (d. ca. 690), at the...

Mar 14th

Repetition

In romantic thought, repetition is the enemy of freedom, the greatest force of repression both in...

Mar 13th

Moleskines

Mar 12th

Giorgio Morandi, Natura Morta (1938)

Mar 12th

The New England Primer

Mar 12th

Colin Burrow on the unfashionable

There is an awkward period in the lives of clothes, furniture and writers, when they become...

Mar 12th

Joel Sheesley, What Goes Up? (2006)

Mar 9th

Lynn Geesaman, untitled (1983)

Mar 9th

“Auden became, in the 1940s and after, the poet of a...”
— from a wonderful essay by...

Mar 8th

on the survival of poetry

The survival of poetry, especially if written before the invention of print, has often been a matter...

Mar 8th

“Lord, I keep watch! If I am not here who will guard their...”
— “Prayer of the...

Mar 8th

“See, Lord, My coat hangs in tatters, like homespun, old,...”
— “Prayer of the Old...

Mar 8th

Chant Avedissian, an appliquéd cotton wall hanging (British...

Mar 8th

Lynn Geesaman, Parc de Canon, France (1995)

Mar 7th

Brigit Pegeen Kelley, "Iskandariya"

It was not a scorpion I asked for, I asked for a fish, but maybe God misheard my request, maybe God...

Mar 7th

Apple Unveils New Product-Unveiling...

SAN FRANCISCO—At a highly anticipated media event Tuesday at San Francisco’s Moscone Center,...

Mar 6th

Robert Lang, Pegasus (1996). The New Yorker’s story on...

Mar 6th

Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord, Terrestrial Talisman (1995)

Mar 6th

Hugh Trevor-Roper on C. S. Lewis (letter...

Do you know C.S. Lewis? In case you don’t, let me offer a brief character-sketch. Envisage (if...

Mar 6th

best cellphone review EVER

When you dial a number, you have a choice of seeing said number in a gigantic, ghastly typeface, or...

Mar 6th

“As is well known, the philosopher Adorno said that it would...”
— Czeslaw Milosz

Mar 5th

Paul Klee, Angelus Novus (1920)

Mar 5th

“A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking...”
— Walter Benjamin, “Theses on...

Mar 5th

“Well, God is in heaven And we all want what’s his...”
— Bob Dylan

Mar 5th

Joel Sheesley, Driveway Shadows (2006)

Mar 5th

Paula Scher, South America (2002)

Mar 5th

Paula Scher, World (1998)

Mar 5th

Ian McKellen as Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus (1974)

Mar 5th

“In this relatively dark conversation, one story that Mr....”
— interview with Frank Gehry

Mar 5th

London, 1940

Mar 5th

“We have much to be forgiven; nay, we have the more to be...”
— John Henry Newman, sermon on...

Mar 5th

Tom Philips, Humument Fragment: Together in the Train (2005)

Mar 5th

Tom Philips, Dante In His Study (1978)

Mar 5th

“And when the bread and the wine are raised above the altar,...”
— Rowan Williams, Archbishop of...

Mar 5th

“Pull the nails from the cross Pull the cross from the hill...”
— John B Spencer

Mar 5th

Peter Callesen, Why? (2005)

Mar 4th

“Bene+dic, Domine, creaturam istam cerevisae, quam ex adipe...”

Mar 4th

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a selection from the documentary film “Night Mail” (1936), featuring W. H. Auden’s...

Mar 4th

“For the truth is that there is an alliance between religion...”
— G. K. Chesterton

Mar 4th

I could write a book about this, but … it’s...

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