Sunday, April 19, 2026

'A Beautiful and Consoling Thought'

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The only speeding ticket I have ever received was issued by a police officer in Bellevue, Wa., about fifteen years ago. He clocked me doing ...
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Saturday, April 18, 2026

'Congealed Violence'

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"If architecture is frozen music (and I think it is), then fortifications are congealed violence. That is to say they are the best sort...
Friday, April 17, 2026

'His Passage Paid Home Free'

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Late in 2024 I was browsing in old issues of The American Scholar  from the era when Joseph Epstein was the editor. In the Winter 1986 issue...
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Thursday, April 16, 2026

'Rest and Have Ease'

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William Wordsworth in anyone’s book is a major poet but I seldom read him any longer because I find much of his work dull as dishwater. Ther...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2026

'I Shall at Least Discover the Coast'

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  Knuff , looby , lubber , clotpoll , chucklehead , chuff , bedpresser, fopdoodle , pricklouse , pickthank, jackalent , dandiprant, jobberno...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2026

'None of the Miseries Foretold for the Retired'

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A reader asks what I make of retirement after fifteen jobless months. I’m mildly surprised by what little difference it makes. I started wor...
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Monday, April 13, 2026

'To Take the Bad Taste Out of My Mouth'

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“We live in a fanatical age, an age of propaganda, when everybody wants the support of the whole herd in order to be quite at peace in his o...
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