… lays out the case: Jewish students, come here to the South — where you’ll be safe.

 …  Kelly Clarkson had one word for Hillary Clinton about Arizona’s ban on abortions that left her Pro-Life fans fuming . I don’t usually op...

…   The Paradox of the Misanthropic Naturalist Animal Lover .

…  Paul Davis On Crime: My Crime Fiction: 'Byrne's Sitdown' .

…  Abstruse | Word Geniu s .

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write. — Anthony Trollope , born on this date in 1815

 …  How pleasant to sit on the beach…

 … with the Little Flower — Miraculous Invocation to St. Therese.

…  God as Uniquely Unique - by William F. Vallicella .

…  Liberal mayor makes discriminatory comments that have people concerned  , Maybe he should check out Martin Luther King:  “ I have a dream...

 …   NYC Man Convicted Over Gunsmithing Hobby After Judge Says 2nd Amendment 'Doesn't Exist in This Courtroom' So this clown can...

…  Paul  Davis On Crime: HBO's 'The Sympathizer' And The Real Vietnam Sp y. .

…  Josh Hawley, Tom Cotton urge Biden to mobilize National Guard to protect Jewish college students - Washington Times .

 … It Always Starts With the Jews. These so-called students are obviously ignoramuses, and that’s the kindest thing one can say.

 …  Bird watching remembered and rendered in quatrains.

 …  American journalist arrested for espionage in Prague.

Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology. — Halldor Laxness , born on this date in 1902

 …   Dostoevsky’s idiom . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) …  Dostoevsky owes much of his verbal virtuosity to intuition rather than deliberate strateg...

…  Quaff - Word Daily .

…  Countervail | Word Geniu s .

 … to the Little Flower — Miraculous Invocation to St. Therese .

 …  Death of a man who admitted he had screwed up.

…  Why This Night Is Different From All Other Nights - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics .

…   (18) In Which I Partake of a Cultural Moment .

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more. — Henry Fielding , born on this date in...

…  Paul Davis On Crime: City And Federal Task Force Is Combating Carjackin g .

 … The Moral Rot at the Heart of Our Elite Institutions, One scientist explained a while back (I forget who) that it took him years to make ...

…  Redoubtable | Word Genius .

 … to the Little Flower —   Miraculous Invocation to St. Therese .

…  Puerile - Word Daily .

 …  Self-described “unaccountable freak” was true to his word

…  Rubicund - Word Daily .

 … to the Little Flower — Miraculous Invocation to St. Therese.

God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild. — John Muir , born on this date in 1838

…  Former NFL quarterback Roman Gabriel dies at 83 - Yahoo Sports .

  Translation services under assault by The Machine. Sadly, this is going to get worse before it gets better

…  Antarctica Is Colder, Icier Today Than At Any Time In 5,000 Years - Climate Change Dispatch . Here is a review I wrote some years ago tha...

…   (18) Social Utility and the Value of Pure Inquiry . Social utility is a value. But truth is a value that trumps it. The pursuit of truth...

…  Atmospheric Disturbance� | Mad Swirl .

… Zealotry of Guerin: Poetry and Fiction by Christopher Guerin: Natural Violence .

…  Solatium | Word Genius .

 … Poem Begun from Marginalia Found in a Used Copy of Donald Justice’s Platonic Scripts. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  Edward Feser: Daniel Dennett (1942-2024) . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

 …  First fictional detective appears in 1841.

 … to the Little Flower — Miraculous Invocation to St. Therese.

 ... A new exhibit explores The Troubles in Northern Ireland through portraiture

 …  Was it Adam’s rib (or another part of his anatomy)?

…  Complicit | The Spectator . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  The story of Vince Maney - The Spectator World . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I’m old enough to have seen the A’s play at Shibe Park.

…  Eternity Only Will Answer by Maya C. Popa | Poetry Foundation . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

 …  Cain and Abel in the Bible.

…  Eponymous - Word Daily .

 … to the Little Flower — Miraculous Invocation to St. Therese.

 … this one by me. Elegy In Memory of  Zelda The aging princess presides Over the ruin of the late king’s palace. The dowager quee...

… (18) On Relevance in Philosophy Education . In the Jesuit college I attended, logic and metaphysics were required course. I also studied t...

 …  This is the Hour of Lead.

…  Poem of the week: Sea Rose by HD | Poetry | The Guardian . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden,.)

 …  The impossible in which I believe . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…   The talented Evan S. Connell - The Spectator World . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) His claim to immortality is  Mrs. Bridge , which astonishes i...

…   Blackberry-Picking by Seamus Heaney | Poetry Foundation l (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.]

…   Consanguineous | Word Genius .

…  Inimitable - Word Daily .

 … to the Little Flower — Miraculous Invocation to St. Therese.

…   Paul Davis On Crime: My Crime Fiction: 'Murder By The Park ' .

 … Walter W. Skeat and the Oxford English Dictionary. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  (18) What is Fascism? - by William F. Vallicella .

 …  Here they are, risen from the darkness.

 … The Spiritual Terrain of David Middleton.   (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  Diaphanous - Word Daily .

Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions. — Thornton Wilder , born on this date in 1897

 …to the Little Flower — Miraculous Invocation to St. Therese.

…  William H. Pritchard and the Twilight of Literary Criticism - Lee Oser - Literary Matters . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for. — Kingsle Amis , born on this date in 1922

…  Another day, another pronoun | The New Criterion . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I have better things to do than ponder pronouns.

…  Trenchant - Word Daily .

 … to the Little Flower — Miraculous Invocation to St. Therese.

…   (18) More academic fraud among the 'equity' bunch? Say it ain't so! .

…  The Psychology of the Pollyanna . . .

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it. — Henry James , born on this day in 1843

…  Sitcom King Lear - The American Conservative . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  Lucky Joe . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Epstein has been called a conservative, but that is only because the shallowness prevailing among the w...

…  Synecdoche | Word Genius .

…  Hubris - Word Daily .

 … to the Little Flower — Miraculous Invocation to St. Therese.

…  Errol Morris on Documentary Filmmaking and Christopher Hitchens - Air Mail . Truth is a quest. An endless procession through a labyrinth ...

 …  Blogging note in seventeen syllables.

…  Fettle | Word Genius . Many will recall the final stanza of  Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Felix Randall” —  How far from then forethought of,...

…  Desire and Ambition . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) In a literary sense,  Room at the Top  is a landmark work of Northern realism. “Certainly no...

…  Lessons From the Life of Evelyn Waugh - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Although he was born nearl...

 …  Things are getting ready to happen out of sight.

…  W.S. Gilbert | Alexander Larman | The Critic Magazine . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God. — Arnold J. Toynbee , born on this date...

…  Arcane - Word Daily .

 … to the Little Flower —   Miraculous Invocation to St. Therese.

You are the sun in the corner of my picture In a dream I am putting together A puzzle. I think it is Eden But I'm not sure- green here, ...

 …  Something from Emily Dickinson.

 …  A band of sunlight and the dark rain.

…  Zealotry of Guerin: Poetry and Fiction by Christopher Guerin: Flowering Crab .

We are the breakers of our own heart. — Eudora Welty , born on this date in 1909