…in response to Stanley Fish’s latest blog entry… One more thing at this time, Stan. I find the habit of rather mindlessly using Shakespeare as a posh putdown very, very annoying, as… more →
Spinoza1111's Blogwrote 2 hours ago: I’ve been sitting on Stanley Fish’s article, “What do Spoilers Spoil” since it was published, but it … more →
wrote 1 week ago: The following essay orginally appeared here at Mises Daily. The Later Works (1973 to present) It is … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Cover of The Way of the Heart In his little book, The Way of the Heart, Henri Nouwen writes in respo … more →
wrote 1 month ago: There are no mere facts. At least that’s what New York Times opinion blogger, Stanley Fish, is argui … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Sentences, in the hands of a novice, are like sand and gravel, heaps standing in the corner, their r … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Most liberal-minded people think they should tolerate the values, customs, and codes of others. Peop … more →
wrote 1 month ago: I was listening to an interview with Stanley Fish that was recorded not long after he published How … more →
wrote 1 month ago: One Reader’s Digest of Surprised by Sin, Chapter Two [i] (i) The Formal Defense To say that w … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is … more →
wrote 2 months ago: One Reader’s Digest of Surprised by Sin, Chapter One [i] (i) The Defects of Our Hearers It … more →
wrote 3 months ago: This is from Stanley Fish’s How To Write A Sentence. Mortality is the condition of being able … more →
wrote 3 months ago: In general, I like to think of myself as disinclined to complain. Especially when it comes to readin … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Two Mollys on Blue - Sarah Small I’m reading Herbert’s instruction manual for parish pri … more →
wrote 4 months ago: Rage—Goddess, sing the rage of Achilles, Murderous and doomed. —The Iliad. Book I. The Bob Hope got … more →
wrote 4 months ago: I’ve been meaning to write this for a while but I’ve been thinking about instead, which … more →
wrote 4 months ago: You might wonder, for example, what place or location names appear in American literary texts publis … more →
wrote 4 months ago: Stanley Fish is an important critic. Let’s begin with that essential statement of fact, because it i … more →
wrote 4 months ago: It’s the weekend again—hallelujah. Because I don’t have that much work to do right now (no dreaded … more →
wrote 4 months ago: A follow-up to my last post on virtual conferences: Over the last two to three years, the term “digi … more →