When Camus read Weil’s manuscripts after World War Two, and after her death in it, he became “more fully Camus.” Nice piece—and I didn’t know that Camus had edited Weil’s works for Gallimard.  

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I think I'll have something to say about this curious time in the world--effectively all around the world.  Maybe in a few days.  For now, I think, we're all just processing stuff.  In many ways, we...

Because the world is telling you that you need more on-screen time these days.  

In praise of slow reading.  

"A new study of the genetic history of Sardinia, a Mediterranean...

Oh this is interesting.  In British politics, what makes an opposition leader effective?  The argument here is that they are all good teachers, judged to be "the essential qualification to be a...

The EU gets a lot of flak, and not all of it is deserved.  But sometimes the ability of the bloc to avoid confronting hard choices really deserves condemnation.  

This piece really gets at...

I've been meaning to read this piece since it came out last spring and I found the time to do so today.  

It's a defense of the idea of "economic dignity" as the main logic of economic policy....

Something of a rant:

Where do "radical secularists" come from?  White conservative Christians seem quite worried about these people, and their persecuting ways.  It seems to be the case that in...

End of week links, for your Friday evening, because you really don't have anything else to do.  You're welcome!

This is one post in a series of interesting posts on Augustine’s “afterlife”...

Sir Walter Scott reviews Jane Austen’s Emma: 

[A] style of novel has arisen, within the last fifteen or twenty years, differing from the former in the points upon which the interest hinges...