Very Interesting

 

Wendell Berry, RIP

Kentucky Lantern: The author, poet, and farmer Wendell Berry has passed away.

I wrote about his novels in a Substack essay: 

"Three Authors Who Should Be Better Known"

Courtroom Thriller

 

The Detached

The corporate elite's embrace of cultural radicalism, in Hollywood and elsewhere, also could prove combustible. Using schools to indoctrinate young people to see America as a systematically flawed society may not appeal to those who did not attend the primary centers for elite indoctrination like the Ivy League, Berkeley, or Stanford. One can comfortable genuflect to intersectionality in Manhattan or Malibu but, according to one recent survey, barely 8 percent of the population embraces the political correctness agenda, with most, including most minorities, seeing it as a "problem."

- Joel Kotkin in The Rise of Corporate-State Tyranny

The Sowell Legacy

 

It is a travesty that more people know of Al Sharpton than of Thomas Sowell.

Proper Decor

A Large Regular has a picture of Cormac McCarthy's living room, not his library, and it is clear evidence that I need to boost my book purchases.

Although some may disagree.

A Tucson Boy Who Made Good

 

Strange Divisions

 

Many years ago, I learned that the worst companies are the least-inclined to seek outside advice whereas the best-run companies seek fresh perspectives on a regular basis.

The same goes for individuals.

But let's broaden that scope.

The older and more experienced people have the resources and habit of getting outside opinions in order to make sound decisions.

But many of the most important decisions occur early in life and are made by the young.

And those innocents have few, if any, sound advisors. 

But they have a lifetime to review their performance.

If they are wise, they'll learn the lessons and exile the regrets.

First Paragraph

On Saturday evening, March 23,1996, eighteen-year-old apprentice airman Steven Nary went looking for his regular carousing buddies on the USS Carl Vinson, then berthed at the Alameda Naval Air Station across the bay from San Francisco. Two of his fellow sailors were on vacation, however, and two were on leave, so Nary decided to go in alone, the first time he had done so. Bad move. 

- From What's the Matter with California: Cultural Rumbles from the Golden State and Why the Rest of Us Should Be Shaking by Jack Cashill

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