The union of the beautiful and the rigorous

Why the philosophical works are an important part of the Great Books program

Hello friends, if all has gone according to plan, I am going to spent the next five hours having my face zapped by three ladies from Moldova--the final, and yet excruciatingly on-going, step in my beard-removal journey.

I continue to read E.P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class, which continues to be excellent. One of the theses of the bo…