Known of Old

"Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk therein' . . ." Jeremiah 6: 16

25 August 2009

The Salt of the Earth

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It seems to me that the world is made up of three kinds of people: 1) Those who are humble when they've been humbled (and that means mo...
24 August 2009

No Country is an Island

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I don't think I've ever put much faith in those foreign-policy ideas variously known as "isolationism" or "non-interv...
23 August 2009

The Rapture of English Poetry; or, A Meeting of Souls

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What I like best about the best of the English poets is this uncanny, almost mad impulse they have, of wanting to read and decipher the no...

A Tale of Two Economies

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Walter de la Mare's tale The Wharf: An extraordinarily simple and wide-ranging story, set in England c. 1920, that moves from town to fa...
21 August 2009

A Monstrous Future

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I don't mean to seem utterly down on American culture. I believe my country to be one of the utmost importance to the future of the worl...
13 August 2009

Geese vs Ganders

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Comparing the Bush and Obama foreign-policy styles, the distinguished military historian Eliot Cohen wrote recently in The Wall Street Journ...

The Last Word on America

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I don't think the world - even in this Age - is by any means finished with America. Or vice versa. And yet, big as America is, and as un...
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