“Vaya Con Dios” and Care of the Soul

By: Glenn W. Smith Sunday December 19, 2010 9:30 am

The day I arrived on earth back in September, 1953, the number one song in America was Les Paul and Mary Ford’s “Vaya Con Dios.” Go With God? Go? Hell, I’d just gotten here. Where was I supposed to go? A month earlier, the Soviet Union helped put the boom in Baby Boomer by exploding [...]

The Strange World of Wall Street Journal Commenters

By: masaccio Sunday August 22, 2010 10:30 am

Why are the reasonably well-off commenters at the Wall Street Journal so hostile?

Requiem for Reality

By: Glenn W. Smith Sunday August 22, 2010 9:30 am

Emerson said, “…wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things.” It’s in his essay, “Nature,” and he was talking about the sacrifice of sacred truth to profane ambitions:

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