fleshers and stoics
I’m going to be traveling for the next few days, by automobile, and will therefore be mostly away from the internet....
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children of Twitter
It’s a commonplace that Europeans, and people from several other parts of the world, see Americans as — if...
John Gray and the human future
So many things I wish I could write about; so little time to do anything but work on those darn books. But at least I...
only connecting
Everything connects; but teasing out the connections in intelligible and useful ways is hard. The book I’m currently...
insders and outsiders
One of the stories often told by fans of the Inklings — C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien and their friends — is...
The Righteous Mind and the Inner Ring
In his recent and absolutely essential book The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt tries to understand why we disagree with...
CSL and the Menippean satire, once more
There’s probably not much point in responding to this post, with its rhetorical strategy of huffing and puffing...
the problem of Lewis the storyteller
A recurrent problem for those of us who suffer from chronic logorrhea is our tendency to forget what we have and have...
a little Narnian adventure
I’m suffering with a rather nasty cold at the moment, which, along with the typical craziness of the start of an...
to live and die in the Anthropocene
I’m not quite sure what to do with this essay by Roy Scranton on learning to live — or rather, learning to die...