Nov '03 [Home] Essays

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A House Upon the Downs by Patrick Henry Any house in this district meant so much. When I mentioned the presence of Kipling and Virginia Woolf, he talked at length about working on both of their houses, though some time after their departure. Highly Recommended—Essay:  "Junk Politics:  A Voter's Guide to the Post-Literate Election" Benjamin DeMott in this month's Harper's The American democratic ideal called for universal, informed participation in the public square:  acquaintance with skills of argument, familiarity with standards of coherence, brains. The embrace by those in high office of dim-bulb diffidence tropes,—macho brandishings of ignorance—trashes that ideal and draws down added contempt on political vocation. ~ . ~ . ~