Anecdotal Evidence

The digital age has enabled a new and more generous definition of friendship. Geographical proximity is no longer a necessary component. It’...

How pleasing to learn that friends, seemingly unknown to each other -- compartmentalized as friendships often are -- intersected before we k...

“Perhaps you know this word, but I didn’t: ‘cromulent.’   I've seen examples of it used to describe players of different sports.”   So...

R.S. Gwynn takes a story related by Izaak Walton in The Life of Mr. George Herbert (1670) and turns it into a poetic  fable of humility and...

“As for a book to mark the settled sobriety of my advanced years, I keep Boswell’s Life of Johnson close by. Its praise of steady judgment...

The best thing about Independence Day in the United States is that no one is obligated to observe it. And if you do, regardless of how eccen...

In Gettysburg: The Last Invasion (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013), the historian  Allen C. Guelzo quotes the nineteenth-century English Liberal stat...