It’s time to celebrate Ralph Waldo Emerson’s bicentennial.
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Doomed to choose.
“Some among the Great Goods cannot live together. That is a conceptual truth.”
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Focus on the frame.
“Reliance on frames and paradigms and whatnot is not some kind of failure to be sufficiently open-minded, it’s a precondition of any sort of attempt to understand the world.”
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What would President Bartlett do?
Sunder Katwala looks at the foreign policy of Martin Sheen’s presidential alter-ego.
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Away til next week.
In the meantime, check out Ship of Fools, the cheeky British religious Web site.
“The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.”
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Wieseltier vs. Menand.
Tillich’s “Protestant principle” protests against idols in the name of the “God beyond God”; Menand protests against commitment itself.
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Fall of the House of Sarah.
The store’s last day is Valentine’s Day, so here’s a love letter to the shop and the books I’ve discovered there over the years.
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Reality reruns.
Let us praise Flak, the e-magazine where Lindsay Robertson dishes up the latest episode of “Joe Millionaire” so you don’t miss a thing even when you can’t be bothered to watch.
“The emotional leitmotifs of anti-Americanism are resentment mingled with envy; those of anti-Europeanism are irritation mixed with contempt.”