Having just finished Brian’s book Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer (which I’ll discuss at length in a forthcoming review essay), I was very pleased to come across Brian’s lovely podcast discussion with Richard Reinsch at the Law & Liberty blog. Brian’s exposition of Percy is a paragon of clarity and thus makes for a most reliable overview. (His…
THE MYSTERY OF LANGUAGE LANGUAGE IS an extremely mysterious phenomenon. By mysterious I do not mean that the events which take place in the brain during an exchange of language are complex and little understood-although this is true too. I mean, rather, that language, which at first sight appears to be the most familiar sort…
Details here with special guest, “The Last Man Standing”, of course The Killer — oooo weee! Jazzjazz FestJerry Lee Lewismusicnew orleans
The Telegraph. cornetflugelhornhugh masekelaJazzmusicsouth africatrumpet
Elizabeth Kaufer Busch’s brief article “Liberal Education Rightly Understood” remembers Peter Augustine Lawler in Perspectives on Political Science. See also an obituary in the Claremont Review of Books by Daniel Mahoney, an obit I heretofore hadn’t come across. Sigh . . . Peter and I had some writing plans. Allan BloomElizabeth Kaufer BuschLiberal educationpeter lawlerReligion &…
Faye reading Love in the Ruins, 1976, photographed by Terry O’Neill. faye dunawaylove in the ruinsphotographyterry o’neillWalker Percy
Adrian Vermeule’s review of Ryszard Legutko’s The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies. Adrian VermeuleAge of EnlightenmentdemocracyfreedomLiberalismPolitical philosophyRyszard Legutkototalitarianism
Part VII of Robert Leeson’s series. distributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeFriedrich HayekLiberalismrobert leesonsocial epistemology
Still on Percy I was very disappointed that I missed last year’s shindig! So check out this brief trailer and to keep apprised of the weekend’s emerging details, I suggest one signup here. Louisiananew orleansphilosophical literaturePhilosophyWalker PercyWalker Percy Weekend
The American Christian novelist faces a peculiar dilemma today. (I speak, of course, of a dilemma of the times and not of his own personal malaise, neuroses, failures, to which he is at least as subject as his good heathen colleagues, sometimes I think more so.) His dilemma is that though he professes a belief…
