“It Came upon the Midnight Clear” has become my favorite Christmas carol. Though familiar with the song for many years, it was just in the past year or two that I found the lyrics, three verses long, in my mother’s…
This is my second recent post about Bertrand Russell, the famous philosopher, mathematician, Nobel laureate in literature, and champion of peace. The first post is long — a 21-question pretend interview, where the answers all come from Russell’s book, “Political…
“In dark days, men need a clear faith and a well-grounded hope; and as the outcome of these, the calm courage which takes no account of hardships by the way.” Thus begins “Political Ideals,” a short book by the famous…