[As a student, Howard] Thurman did this by, among other things, reading quite literally every book on the shelves of Morehouse’s admittedly modest library, most of the religious texts donated by retired white ministers. –Sohrab…
We named our firstborn after Maximilian Kolbe, because naming one’s children after saints is what Roman Catholics do. We believe doing so wins the newborn the patronage of the saint in heaven. But there was…
The great benefit to be derived from reading pre-modern authors is to come to realize that after all, we [moderns] might have been mistaken. –C.F.J. Martin, quoted in Sohrab Ahmari, The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the…