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Possibly the Most Negative Theatre Review Ever
Tweet This PostSometime in the early 1800s, Goethe was walking a secluded, narrow path which led to a mill. There he met an (unnamed) prince, and the two fell into conversation about many subjects,...
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Jim Bennett on Steve Jobs
Tweet This PostGood piece by Jim about Steve Jobs, and what kind of entrepreneur he was, entitled “Hitting the Sweet Spot.” The intro: There are, fundamentally, two subspecies of entrepreneur. One...
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Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Josiah Bunting III speaking on “American Leadership,”...
Tweet This PostThe Mens Leadership Forum of Chicago will present Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Josiah Bunting III (Also here.) on December 9, 2011. He will be speaking on the topic of American Leadership, which in...
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The Proud Tower & The Buccaneers
Tweet This PostThere were a lot of other things going on in United States in the late 19th century – and one of my current projects is taking me there, which means that the vast amount of reading that...
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An Interesting Man, President Reagan.
Tweet This Post- Hebert E. Meyer memorandum, Nov. 30, 1983 (via National Review Online). (We really should take up the President’s suggestion to begin planning for a post-Soviet world; the Soviet...
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Author Appreciation: Fanny Kemble
Tweet This PostI knew that Fanny Kemble was a 19th-century British actress, but that’s about all I knew about her prior to encountering her description of an 1830 train ride and thoughts about the...
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Wall Street and its Clients
Tweet This PostAnn Althouse has a good post today. I can’t get through her Captcha system so I thought I would post a few comments here. This NY Times op-ed piece is the source for her observations....
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Further Fannyisms
Tweet This Post…a selection of the passages I bookmarked in the Kemble journals. On American women The dignified and graceful influence which married women, among us, exercise over the tone of...
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Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Slade – Conclusion
Tweet This PostBut Jack Slade was not quite dead. Some stories have it that he looked up at Jules Beni and gasped, “I’ll live long enough to hang your ears from my watch chain!” The two stage drivers...
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Between the warrior and the monk (i): my father
Tweet This Post[ cross-posted from Zenpundit -- a warrior, a monk, and where that leaves me -- first in a series of 3 posts ] . Like one of those toy acrobats who flips up, over and under when you...
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Between the warrior and the monk (ii): Fr Trevor Huddleston
Tweet This Post[ cross-posted from Zenpundit -- a warrior, a monk, and where that leaves me ] . In the first part of this post I introduced you to my father, Captain OG Cameron DSC, RN, the man who...
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Between the warrior and the monk (iii): poetry and sacrament
Tweet This Post[ cross-posted from Zenpundit -- a warrior, a monk, and (still to come, in a fourth and final post) where that leaves me ] . . How I have loved that handwriting! How I loved that man!...
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Barry Puts Williams in Context: Coke, the Law, & a very young man
Tweet This PostRoger Williams tells Winthrop “I desire not to sleep in securitie and dreame of a Nest wch no hand can reach.” Puritans could hope but Williams found certainty “monstrous” when it...
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The Southern Belle With the Spine of Steel
Tweet This PostStephen Vincent Benet nailed down the type, in his poem epic John Brown’s Body, in a phrase that has resonated with me ever since I read it so long ago that I don’t recall when I read...
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When It Was Natural for Parents to Bury Their Children
Tweet This PostHistory gives us breadth: people in action on a grand stage, consequential ideas with great if unforeseen consequences; the demographer’s statistics and tables distil huge movements...
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Noor Inayat Khan Statue is Unveiled
Tweet This PostA statue of this British-Indian woman, who served as an agent for the WWII British underground organization known as Special Operations Executive, has been unveiled in London. BBC story...
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Consumer Question – 23andme
Tweet This PostThe musings on the random and tragic nature of life remind us of how little we know – and control. But it reminded me of the marketing of a step toward more control: how good are the...
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Great Moments in Wife-Selection
Tweet This PostThere’s an amusing incident in a recent biography of Erich Maria Remarque. Remarque immigrated to the United States in 1939, and in the 1950s he came to a friend with a dilemma: two...
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Presidents’ Day: Amity Schlaes’ biography of Coolidge
Tweet This PostVery little attention is being paid to the holiday today, except as a traffic annoyance. When I was a child, we still celebrated Lincoln’s birthday (February 12) and Washington’s...
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Sixty Years after Stalin
Tweet This Post Sixty years ago one of the greatest monsters in history, a mass-murderer of tens of millions many times over, the yellow-eyed, “Kremlin mountaineer” breathed his last. We live, deaf...
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