Rethink.

Did quite a bit of editing to make good on my last post. I think I’m going to go in chronological order and fix things one at a time. Still, I do want to get some posts cleaned up out of order because they’re rather important. Leo Strauss, “Memorial Remarks for Jason Aronson” – after …

As I’m editing this dissertation, I also want to do the same for all the entries on this blog. Don’t get me wrong: a number of the entries do need editing and clarification. Some need to be deleted outright. Going back and fixing stuff is very, very necessary. Why now, though? I guess I’m like …

February 2012 I remember buying an issue of Poetry Magazine where various writers talked about spirituality. “A Prayer” by Robert Creeley had me thinking a long time. I remember loving its minimalism and reading it over and over. Nate Klug’s “Dare” was another poem that got me to sit and stare for a while. I …

I write a lot. I know, I need to be editing and making things much clearer when not deleting some entries and pretending they never existed. Still, going over what I wrote this past year, I’m stunned by how much I’ve covered and in what depth. What is below is a sampling from January. It …

1. Because of where I am in life and what I want to do, I can’t help but feel that the fundamental fact of American life is that the university is a predatory lender. I live in a republic that was established by men like Jefferson and Franklin for the advance and free exchange of …

As always, I welcome additional questions. 1. You don’t have a life, do you? 1. Nope! 2. Who cares about poetry? All that stuff is made up anyway. 2. If you’re not doing the hard sciences, everything is open to the accusation of being “made up.” And even then, lots of people I know who …

Going through the archive, I realized there’s been a lot of very good writing done this year. January might have been the high point of the blog’s life, actually. There are remarks on Plato’s Minos, meant for people who haven’t read the dialogue. The status of the question “What is law?” is thought through and …