New Criterion, February 1st, 2002
Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage: for when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune: so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.
--Spinoza, The Ethics
"Aplomb in the midst of irrational things"--that's my motto!
--Santayana to William Morton Fullerton, 1887
It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most. It is older than the oldest speech of Rome. This is the tragic accent of the scene And you--it is you that speak it, without...
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