The Best Of Rory Gallagher
If ever you wanted a convenient and reliable way to discover the wonderfully soulful guitarist Rory Gallagher, this is the collection to do it. Here is a review. bluesceltic musiccountryfolkguitarRory Gallagher
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A Confederacy of Dunces: quotes (25)
Dear Reader, Books are immortal sons defying their sires –Plato I find, dear reader, that I have grown accustomed to the hectic pace of office life, an adjustment which I doubted I could make. Of course, it is true that in my brief career at Levy Pants, Limited, I have succeeded in initiating several work-saving methods.…
Zeno’s Conscience: quotes (24)
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Steve Cropper
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A Confederacy of Dunces: quotes (24)
Opening his desk, he looked at a pile of articles he had once written with an eye to the magazine market. For the journals of opinion there were “Boethius Observed” and “In Defense of Hroswitha: To Those Who Say She Did Not Exist.” For the family magazines he had written “The Death of Rex” and…
On Civility
The very excellent Elizabeth Corey in an Oakeshottian frame of mind. It concerns the entire person—body, mannerisms, and speech—and it signals respect for oneself and others. Civility here is graciousness and courtesy, kindness and respect, other-regarding action that greases the wheels of human interaction. . . . Civility is not much prized in our revolutionary…
Raymond Aron
Died on this date in 1983. My co-authored chapter on Aron’s The Opium of the Intellectuals for Anthem’s Companion to Raymond Aron is now in press. liberalityopium of the intellectualsraymond aronregressive left
Chess as Played by Artificial Intelligence
A terrific overview of the history of chess machines. It brought back memories of several of those iterations. Article is freely available here. Artificial intelligencechessPhilosophy of mind
What can we learn from Michael Oakeshott’s effort to understand our world?
The dean of Oakeshott studies, Tim Fuller, has an online talk scheduled on the 29th. Michael OakeshottTim Fuller
Zeno’s Conscience: quotes (23)
And despite the fact that I was so different from him, I believe he reciprocated my affection with equal fondness. I would be more certain of this if he hadn’t died so soon. He continued assiduously giving me lessons after my marriage and he often seasoned them with shouts and insults, which I accepted, convinced…
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