Monthly Archives: February 2020

Kimball, Roger. The Fortunes of Permanence. St. Augustine’s, South Bend Indiana. 2012. NF;2/20. when everybody’s somebody, nobody’s anybody – W S Gilbert, The Gondoliers I discovered Roger Kimball – who is definitely of the opinion that being “somebody” (and that … Continue reading →

Deneen, Patrick. Why Liberalism Failed. Yale, New Haven, 2018. NF;1/20 The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, … Continue reading →

Gopnik, Adam. A Thousand Small Sanities. Basic Books, New York, 2019. NF;1/20. I decided, ignoring inner “this is naïvely silly” warnings, to look at some current thinking about the tiresome growing polarity that won’t go away: the Left and the … Continue reading →