As we contemplate the failure of our contemporary managerial class to fulfill its natural and constitutional duties, our own responsibility for securing the common good, and complicity in its neglect, demands that we ask a specific question. That question is: what are we going to do about it? The duty of our representatives is toContinue reading “Growing in Civic Fortitude”
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Book in Hand
According to Desiderius Erasmus, his dear friend and fellow intellectual prankster, St. Thomas More never went anywhere without a book in hand. Yet no one would have described him as a “bookish” man. Then as now, many were wont to blame the liberal arts for leading wayward souls into a life if impracticality. Yet More,Continue reading “Book in Hand”
Wise (and Unwise) Laughter
“Mr. Darcy is not to be laughed at!” cried Elizabeth. “That is an uncommon advantage, and uncommon I hope it will continue, for it would be a great loss to me to have many such acquaintances. I dearly love a laugh.” “Miss Bingley,” said he, “has given me more credit than can be. The wisest and theContinue reading “Wise (and Unwise) Laughter”
"His Tongue shall Speak Judgment" 