Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Some Wednesday Readings


Science and Poetry: William Blake and the Doctrine of Double Truth
 – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern. 

The Real War in the Mideast Comes into Focus – Matti Friedman at The Free Press.

 

The Inescapable Melancholy of Phone Boxes – Spitalfields Life.

 

The Venerable Bede – England’s First Great Historian – Dana Huntley at British Heritage.

 

An Oration on the Scholar’s Mission – Orestes Brownson at The Imaginative Conservative (speech first given in 1843 at Dartmouth College. 

 

Can the “Everyone is a Spy” Bill be Stopped? – Matt Taibbi at Racket News.

 

Among the missing, among the dead: Black poetry in America – William Logan at New Criterion.

 

Illustration: Orestes Brownson (1803-1872).

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