Check out his prescient warning published in Commentary.
John Stuart Mill
Born on this day. See Christopher Macleod’s overview in the SEP. Most (if not all) of Mill’s writings freely available here.
Jazz funeral
It was the Jazz funeral opening scene in Live and Let Die that so captivated me, a kid living a world away — the dirge, the sashay, the exuberance — a love affair that has never dimmed. Thus I’m very pleased to learn about this crowd-funded work-in-progress City of a Million Dreams (H/T OffBeat). I’d imagine that if you supported Tradition is a Temple you’d want to support this effort: one Walter Isaacson has endorsed this project.
Using, not misusing, your brain organ
EPISTEME: Volume 15 – Issue 2 – June 2018
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Mishima’s classic published in English (translated by Ivan Morris) on this date in 1959. See Donald Keene’s original review “Beauty Itself Became a Deadly Enemy” in the NYT.
