Thomas Bartscherer
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Vince Giordano’s band still doing their thing at holy Birdland.
"We have little reason to hope that at some time in the not too distant future such men will match in practical and theoretical wisdom the men of the American Revolution...But that little hope...is the only one we have that freedom in a political sense will not vanish again from the earth..."
Robert Redfield, Margaret Park Redfield, and their son James M. Redfield, en route to Beijing, China in the late 1940s. RIP, James Redfield.
Farewell, James Redfield. A singular voice in 20th century classical studies, an inimitable teacher, and a very funny guy. Chair of the Committee on Social Thought at the age of 34. Still teaching well into his 80s. He has died at 91.
Late in the day to wonder about this, but why doesn't Jason Bourne ever don a disguise? He hardly ever even wears a hat.
Why are both buttons buttoned on the jacket? @dieworkwear.bsky.social
For years, until today, without my realizing it, Golo Mann and Rollo May occupied the same ill-defined space in my mind.
Wish they'd spent a bit more time on ETHOS before developing MYTHOS
"I've done a lot of marathons," the President said. "Like a LOT... New York, Boston, I've done most of the major ones. People say I should have won, but the Kenyans cheated. But that's alright, that's alright. So we're going to be doing the Bible marathon. I love the Bible."
"Career Guard" is what I typically get when I dictate to my phone the name Kierkegaard. I'm sure he'd appreciate the irony.
Reading the news today, I was reminded of my friend, the Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah...one of the smartest people I know. www.ebsco.com/research-sta...
Amazing. Peter Brown tells the story of Momigliano's key ring! I had heard that story still being told in Chicago many years after his death, and doubted its veracity. And yet here it is, recounted by a scholar of supreme authority.
One of the worst instances of “now they tell us” in a long time.