Recent Reading

Sohrab  Ahmari, The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos Thomas à  Kempis, The Imitation of Christ Wendell Berry, Blessed are the Peacemakers: Christ’s Teachings of Love, Compassion, and Forgiveness…

Advice from 1921

Therefore, be slow to speak and slow to go to  those places where people speak, because in many  words the spirit is poured out like water; by your  amiability to all, purchase the right really…

Back to Bach

Listen to certain Preludes of Bach. They do not say much; there is a short motif repeated; then insistent variations in no higher relief than that of a medal by Roty.  But what a level…