Today’s One-Liner (#226)
This little incident of my childhood is a summary of my whole life; later on when perfection was set before me, I understood that to become a saint one had to suffer much, seek out…
A Father Schall Reading List
1) G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy 2) C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity 3) E. F. Schumacher, A Guide for the Perplexed 4) Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov 5) Peter Kreeft, The Philosophy of Tolkien 6) Ralph McInerny, I Alone Have Escaped to Tell You 7) Dorothy Sayers, The Whimsical Christian 8) J….
Today’s One-Liner (#225)
What I call “another sort of learning” is the finding and reading those seminal books that take us to the truth and order of things. ––James V. Schall, Docilitas: On Teaching and Being Taught
A Different Perspective
A God-fearing Orthodox peasant talking about thieves, with a shrug of the shoulders, as one talks about a social necessity: “It’s a busy life—there’s always a shop or a bank to rob. And where would…
Today’s One-Liner (#224)
Mama, do not weep, life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we do not want to know it, and if we did want to know it, tomorrow there would be paradise the…
Calm, Cool, Collected: Coleman Hughes on the Gaza War
I’ve been getting acquainted with Coleman’s work the last few years. Listen to him for 3 minutes, and see if you are wanting to take in the next 14 minutes.
Today’s One-Liner (#223)
Perhaps the vast rise in antagonism toward Israel is a manifestation of what psychologists would call “projection.” –Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization, 116
Kafka, Sholom Aleichem, Peretz
In this respect Sholom Aleichem and Peretz are more like Kafka than any of the three are like most modern writers. The Yiddish masters are largely unconcerned with the psychology of individual difference; Kafka…
Today’s One-Liner (#222)
You never know where the Angel of Death will make a date with you. –Sholem Aleichem, Tevye the Dairyman, Shprintze, 96
Bearing Witness
In the fearful years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months in prison queues in Leningrad. One day somebody ‘identified’ me. Beside me, in the queue, there was a woman with blue lips. She…