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Monday, September 21, 2026

We live in an action-oriented society, one stressing motion and quick decisions, and often it is not until later in life that one begins to appreciate the importance of patience.

While pondering a related essay, I have been noticing how many times in my youth involved checking multiple boxes and meeting an array of deadlines.

In retrospect, I would have benefited from a frequent routine of long walks and slow cups of coffee combined with heavy doses of introspection.

Those practices once were wrongly regarded as goofing off.

That's no longer the case for me.

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Saving Britain

Spiked: Peter Hitchens on the state of Britain.

Yet featured in the pageantry of the day are the speeches, lasting well into the afternoon, that disfigure it. Student orators have a say; the president speaks; various deans congratulate their charges; invited guests add their voices. And every one of them intoned the talk of the left wing of the Democratic Party. Not a single Republican was to be heard - not even heard of, not even a mention of Donald Trump (that I heard), for no speaker bothered to state views opposed to their own. Present and future Republicans and conservatives were gratuitously slighted and left with a sour taste of having their good will imposed upon. At commencement the university exposes its beliefs, showing whom it honors and for what. Harvard's honorary degrees went only to men and women of the left, all speaking to the goals and practices of diversity and the opinions of the left.

- Harvey C. Mansfield, Where Harvard Went Wrong: Fifty Years of Commentary That Fell on Deaf Ears