Summary: Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To gain anything, something of equal value must be given. That is life’s First Law of Equivalent Exchange, and… more →
Fabius Maximuswrote 1 week ago: by Emily Esfahani Smith Great Gatsby trailer Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby: Lush, Decadent, … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: The two-CD set, “Benjamin Britten: Purcell Realizations” consists of 40 songs, which are as the titl … more →
wrote 4 months ago: My fondness for Mr. Bowman’s voice as well as the appreciation of Mr. Nyman’s works in g … more →
wrote 5 months ago: Interviewed with Marcello the great chef after his retirement from his wonderful Café Minuet (locate … more →
wrote 7 months ago: “…But hang on a sec there, Prof. I thought your argument was that neither the God of Isr … more →
wrote 11 months ago: The packed south transept of Ely Cathedral waited expectantly. With the disguised effortlessness of … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Apologies for the dearth of postings by me in the last few days… I’m, racing to finish t … more →
wrote 1 year ago: No, the heading is not a mistake and this is not an attack on tenors. Rather, I’m going to ref … more →
wrote 1 year ago: -I just had the chance to do some catch-up on my reading of the latest writings of one of my favorit … more →
wrote 1 year ago: …The right not to have their divine souls stuffed with gossip, nonsense, vain talk. —Aleksande … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Covering medical research for the University of Chicago, one hears a lot about racial health dispari … more →
wrote 1 year ago: With the theatre down for a couple of weeks and all the anticipation of the re-opening ahead, I thou … more →
wrote 1 year ago: …is awarded to James Bowman, one of the best conservative philosophers of the modern age, for … more →
wrote 2 years ago: It is something of an accepted ‘fact’ that the brutalities of the Great War were brought home to the … more →
wrote 2 years ago: James Bowman gives us a nice uplifting story about the end of sex as we know it. A 16-year-old girl … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Lately I’ve been bringing CDs to work and ripping them to my hard drive so I can have music to … more →
wrote 2 years ago: You can probably guess how I feel about supposedly secular or (cough) ‘unbigoted’ argume … more →
wrote 2 years ago: James Bowman in The Weekly Standard: “Don’t ask, don’t tell” is a tribute to … more →
wrote 2 years ago: In his review of Quentin Tarantino’s latest film James Bowman takes on those who obsess over t … more →