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On Becoming Sheepdogs, a Modern Fable
Posted on June 13, 2020 | 1 CommentEmail0Facebook1Twitter0Reddit0X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 AVAILABLE ON PODCAST Anchor.fm Spotify iTunes In the wake of recent events regarding the tragic death of George Floyd and the ensuing protests, this letter seems […]
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Are We Killing the Fat Man? The Corona Trolley Dilemma
Posted on April 18, 2020 | 14 CommentsEmail3Facebook4Twitter1Reddit2X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 AVAILABLE ON PODCAST SPOTIFY ITUNES ANCHOR.FM THE TROLLEY PROBLEM The Trolley thought experiment, first put forth by the philosopher Philippa Foot, pits two schools of moral thought […]
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For the Class of 2020 During the Pandemic, a Poem and a Mother’s Wish
Posted on March 23, 2020 | 4 CommentsEmail2Facebook4Twitter0Reddit2X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 AVAILABLE ON PODCAST Spotify Anchor.fm iTunes Today’s letter is for high school seniors, for my son and his classmates, for my friends’ children, for Andrew and for […]
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Book Shelf Archive
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On Music & Parental Advice – A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles, the Man Behind the Gentleman
Posted on November 10, 2017 | No CommentsEmail0Facebook0Twitter0Reddit0X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 The Man Behind the Gentleman My town library invited bestselling author Amor Towles to speak at its annual fundraiser and luncheon. He made a living in […] -
Little Free Library – Charter # 46480 – For the Love of Reading
Posted on September 12, 2017 | 3 CommentsEmail0Facebook0Twitter0Reddit0X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 The Little Free Library (LFL) is up, in the yard, along the road, by the wooded end of our lot. It is full of books of all kinds, […] -
The Labyrinth, the Mind, the Imagination – Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Posted on August 25, 2017 | No CommentsEmail0Facebook0Twitter0Reddit0X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 Quain was in the habit of arguing that readers were an already extinct species. [Babylon Lottery, Ficciones] Then Bioy Casares recalled that one of the heresiarchs of […] -
Spring Cats – Feline Poetry & T.S. Eliot
Posted on April 14, 2017 | No CommentsEmail0Facebook0Twitter0Reddit0X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 This spring cats are everywhere, in my reading, on my whiteboard, in illustrations. I came across Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot […] -
Unity or Chaos? C.S. Lewis on Stage in NYC
Posted on March 31, 2017 | No CommentsEmail0Facebook1Twitter0Reddit0X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 On Thought & Existence Do you believe that thought is a collection of atoms rolling about at random in a bony skull? or that the arrangement of […] -
A Lifetime in Books – Sandy’s List – Daedalus’s Bookseller
Posted on March 2, 2017 | 1 CommentEmail0Facebook1Twitter0Reddit0X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges When I travel I visit local bookstores, often the highlight of a trip. Footnotes […] -
The Daily Stoic – Only They Truly Live
Posted on January 20, 2017 | No CommentsEmail0Facebook1Twitter0Reddit0X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 Of all the people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only they truly live. Not satisfied to merely keep good watch over their […] -
The College Essay & the Shameless I – “I enjoy urban hang gliding.”
Posted on October 9, 2016 | No CommentsEmail0Facebook0Twitter0Reddit1X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 ” The laws of physics do not apply to me . . . Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to […] -
On Riddles & Language – A Cabinet of Curiosities by Roy Sorensen
Posted on August 7, 2016 | 1 CommentEmail0Facebook0Twitter0Reddit0X Linkedin0 Stumbleupon0 Assassination Proof? As Nero became more powerful there appeared to be no limit on who he me could eliminate — even his mother. His philosophy teacher, Seneca, […]