T.S. Eliot

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Hope on the Road of Despair

Gilbert Keith Chesterton has become rather blasé in Evangelical culture. It’s no longer fashionable to […]

Grateful for this incredible piece by Nate Mills: When I was 3 or 4 I […]

A letter from TS Eliot was published earlier this week in The Paris Review, and […]

Click here to listen to this week’s episode of The Mockingcast, which features an interview […]

The friendly overtures of a person whom we no longer love, overtures which strike us, […]

Here’s one from Christopher Bowhay: As is the case for so many, I blame actor/comedian/banjo […]

1. One subject that’s been on our minds lately is political correctness, the orthodoxy of speech […]

Journey of the Magi T.S. Eliot ‘A cold coming we had of it, Just the […]

FOMO’s not the whole story – nor is it new.

The Boston Magazine this week published a history of “Fear of Missing Out“, tracing its beginnings, like a careful epidemiologist, back to 2004, at Harvard Business School. Of greater interest were its comments on FOBO, Fear of a Better Option (more precisely, Fear that a Better Option Exists, but FOBO’s easier than FBOE, so there it is):

But this mentality had its costs: McGinnis and his group found they couldn’t commit to anything. Working with the rudimentary tools available to them (cell phones and address books), they developed complex algorithms to plan…

Allen Tate, an admired Southern poet (friend of Robert Penn Warren and teacher of Robert […]