For those in the Baltimore area, I hope you might join us Monday, April 15th at 6pm in the Auditorium of the Loyola/Notre Dame Library. Dr. Brian Murray of our Writing Department will discuss “Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Catholic?” Film clips are included and his talk is followed by Q&A. The lecture is sponsored…
This is a super article (https://www.ft.com/content/a27249e4-507c-11e9-9c76-bf4a0ce37d49). It is behind a pay wall but I read it for free on Twitter. If you go searching, the title is the same as this blogpost, but without the reference to Scheler. V&R Chapter 5 explores the moral attributes of the estate, a model for business offered by…
Just came across this excellent video on the cultural and political significance of clothes, and especially jeans. It’s a video hosted by the brilliant and prolific Scots historian, Niall Ferguson. Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUXqSm3TWrI&t=9s
Hope you enjoy my new reflection, “Smith’s Scientific Milestones”: https://www.adamsmithworks.org/speakings
Hope you enjoy my latest at Law & Liberty: https://www.lawliberty.org/2019/03/22/john-gray-separates-the-atheist-wheat-from-the-chaff/
There is no chapter on Caillois at V&R but blog readers will have seen his name plenty. I have just finished reading his unusual 1970 The Writing of Stones. It’s a thin, beautiful volume, published in English by UVA in 1985. Long out of print in English, copies run $700! It’s a shame, as few…
Scotsman Niall Ferguson is one of the most famous living historians and his TV programme Empire can be found on youtube. Each episode is full of interesting stuff. The first includes a segment where Ferguson argues that the impetus for empire began with the British lust for clothes from India. At the time, India…
All football fans know that last week PSG suffered an historic defeat and were knocked out of the elite Champions League. No club has spent more money on some of the most exciting players in the world, yet a third-string Manchester United side defeated them. One curiosity: Man U invited old players and the…
Aurel Kolnai observed that hierarchy is ineliminable from our moral psychology, and since hierarchy is also manifested in privilege, certain aristocratic tones in our shared life are ineradicable. It is unsurprising, therefore, that the passing of Karl Lagerfeld has seen him cast as an aristocrat, a Baroque glittering returning us to the salons of…
Here’s a new piece by my good friend Chris Wojtulewicz. It’s a fascinating inquiry into the tastes and meaning of rock icon, David Bowie. V&R is delighted to host another guest blog by Chris. ~~~~~~~~~~~ David Bowie’s Creed Fragrance, Change, God David Bowie used to like wearing Silver Mountain Water by Creed, as you will…