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Education for slackers

A couple of years ago, I posted an essay about Dorothy Sayers' Lost Tools of Learning. An aspect of her argument that I didn't pull out in that essay, but that struck me at the time, was how unstructured her program of education really was: Towards the

The Benefits of a Failure of Grit

In my article on Grit, I described my personal failing when I discovered that I really didn't have it in me. This was pretty difficult, but in retrospect I can see I needed to take a journey down the road of ashes. What is the road of ashes?

Home Fires Book Review

by Gene Wolfe Tor Books 2011 $24.99; 304 pages One word to sum up this book: disappointing. Perhaps I came it with my expectations raised too high. I had heard of Gene Wolfe from a number of sources, First Things ran an article on him, and a sci fi

Holy Week for Nerds

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Selfish Reasons to have more Kids

Via Steve Sailer. Jonathan Last reviews a new book by Brian Kaplan, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids. The best message I got out of the review is that we can stop worrying about providing a perfect childhood to mold our children, because you really can't mold children.

Tim Powers' New Novel

From the Works of Tim Powers blog: In the winter of 1862, London veterinarian John Crawford learns that his interlude with a prostitute seven years earlier has produced a daughter. The now-reformed ex-prostitute, Adelaide McKee, has recently learned that their lost daughter is still alive—but that the girl'

Meekness

Since I have been reading the Prince lately, I have been very interested in matters political and the virtues of the soldier. But meekness, I never would have thought that to be one of them. Yet here is the best explanation of meekness I have yet seen: Here’s the