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Musings about things that prompt a response in me — reflections on literature, music, philosophy, art, and the ideas that shape how we read the world.
Considered writing on the arts and humanities — offered in the spirit of reasoned, civil reflection.
A contemplative exploration comparing three masterful settings of the sacred text across centuries of European music…
Read Post Three Visions of Laudate Pueri Dominum: Mozart, Mendelssohn, and João de Sousa CarvalhoAn article in The New Criterion reignited a decades-old interest in Nietzsche — and in how thoroughly his language has been misread…
Read Post Nietzsche, Language, and the Misunderstanding of a PhilosopherA short introduction to the poetry offered here — and an admission that verse has never been far from the work…
Read Post Totally Non-Adverse to VerseA brief personal reflection on where the publishing venture came from, and what I hoped it might make room for…
Read Post Why I Created Y Naught BooksWhy Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Goethe, and Proust persistently resurface in my thinking — and what they continue to teach about life, craft, and…
Read Post The Enduring Influence of Four Literary Giants: A Personal ReflectionIntuition is better understood as a family of rapid inference procedures. The interesting question is not whether it works, but precisely when…
Read Post Intuition and Certainty: Could Your Gut Be Wrong?What a piece of writing does after publication — how it lands, what resonates, and whether the message survived the journey from…
Read Post Refining Your Content Through Post Analysis: Blog Post InsightsA review of an economics article that opens onto a larger subject: the long and unavoidable entanglement of political thought with economic…
Read Post Surprise! Ideas Do Have Consequences!Literary commentary as a form of synthesis — reading closely enough that separate ideas begin to speak to one another…
Read Post Review Insights: A Hopefully Thoughtful ExplorationNew essays on literature, music, and the arts arrive here first. Write to us and we'll let you know when the next one is published.
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