Why Carl Schmitt Matters to China
It would be prudent to take the Chinese at their word––especially if it is bound up in the mystifying language of Carl Schmitt.
A Vision on a Summer Night
by
Alan Jacobs
Posted on October 19, 2021
Image: The Downs Malvern, Colwall, Herefordshire, United Kingdom.
Perhaps the older Auden merely wants to have the humility to accept the terms on which agape offers itself.
G.K. Chesterton and the Art of the First Nations
Posted on October 11, 2021
Image: Photo of Petroglyphs at Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park by Carol M. Highsmith. Via Library of Congress.
The secrets of Jerusalem are also lodged in Jacksonville, Joplin, and Joliet
Neither This Nor That
We view the concept of “compromise” from all sorts of oblique angles.
The Problem with Productivity and the Good Work of Love
That means, first, that I have to love my neighbor—my colleague—above my own productivity.
Field Notes of a Sentence Watcher
Posted on September 14, 2021
Image: Oscar Wilde’s edits to The Picture of Dorian Gray; Scribd.
Taking pleasure in a well-crafted sentence is a good in itself.
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