Shirley Hazzard’s Voice
If you’v never read anything by Shirley Hazzard, you need to. I’m hooked, after reading an appreciation of her stories in Commonweal a couple of months back…
Category: literature
The Melancholy Choice
If men are compelled to make the melancholy choice between atheism and superstition, the scientist, as Bacon pointed out long ago, would be compelled to choose atheism, but the poet would be compelled to choose superstition, for even superstition, by its very confusion of values, gives his imagination more scope than a dogmatic denial of… Continue reading The Melancholy Choice
Assessing Scientism
It’s way too tempting to dub the recent debates about Steven Pinker’s essay ‘The Scientism Wars’ but I loathe the rhetoric that finds a war in every corner…. Continue reading at my Forbes blog.
Deor in HD
I’m following up my Caedmon’s Hymn video with this presentation of Deor. This one took a lot longer to memorize. I wasn’t going to dress in period costume, but it was fun to work simple wood structures into the background….
Taking a Cue from Siris
As I have to devote so much time to the Forbes blog, I hate letting this one grow moss. So I’m going to take a page from Brandon Watson’s playbook and post passages from noteworthy books, poems and quotes (and videos).