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of 10 of the best essays on writing, from such greats at Joan Didion, George Orwell, Susan Sontag and more.

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We only just marked the 10th anniversary of Apple's iPhone, but the future waits for no one: Designer Mike Rundle has put together an essay laying out what the iPhone unveiled in 2027 will look like, drawing on visible technology trends today, as well as patents that Apple has filed in recent years.

In the past months he has posted a picture of himself and his wife, Sara, with a stuffed black bear — as well as a thoughtful essay on how to evaluate a new software product and an untitled post that reads, «I'm awake at 5:37 (for two hours now).

The LRC runs lively, expert reviews of Canadian books — as well as the occasional foreign title, if on a Canadian subject or considered alongside Canadian titles on the same theme — and essays by some of the country's most thought - provoking writers.

These include the leading textbook on accounting used in law schools, a popular narrative on contracts, and best - selling books on Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett (The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America and Berkshire Beyond Buffett: The Enduring Value of Values).

Russell Lamberti: Yeah my website, ETM macro advisors website is www.etmmacro.com and I am starting a new newsletter called the macro outsider, and you can sign up for it for free on www.etmmacro.com and you'll get a free essay called «The real currency war» which is subtitled «monopoly money vs real money» and essentially there I just go into a lot of what we've spoken about today in terms of chronic malinvestment, the weakness of fiat currency reserve systems, and then ultimately where I think the real currency war is, which is in centralized vs. decentralized money, and I talk a little bit about cryptocurrencies there as well, so that's www.etmmacro.com you can sign up for that free newsletter.

(A good specimen of her ineptitude in the realm of ideas would be the essay on Kant mentioned by Mr. Marr: a piece that reveals a total ignorance not only of what Kant actually said, but of the most basic problems of epistemology as well.)

We have expanded the essays on our web site to include short book reviews, and I thought he would be a good candidate for some of the offerings in ethics and philosophy that we receive from publishers every week.

And the actual achievements of the best American popular art, including rock n» roll, become despised, or only ironically embraced as Pop Art, a trend both Siegel's essay and Martha Bayles's Hole in Our Soul tie to the Susan Sontag essay «Notes on Camp.»

Henry Mayr - Harting's chapter on the «age of conversion» in the West (the former «Dark Ages») is particularly clear and well - stated, and Jeremy Jons» essay, «Christianity and Islam,» is a useful orientation to the theological challenge of Islam as well as to the more familiar political and military threats of Muslims to the late - antique and medieval West.

A better way into Ralph's thought on this is to note that he was the translator of a neglected classic of contemporary French political philosophy, Philippe Bénéton's Equality by Default: An Essay on Modernity as Confinement (2004, ISI; 1997 publication in France).

Clearly the best collection of essays from a Kentucky farmer - philosopher, this book demonstrates the breadth of Wendell Berry's work, as well as his status as one of the most important commentators of our time on matters of community, land and ecology.

His chapter on prayer was one of the best treatments of prayer I have ever read, right up there with the essays on prayer by C.S. Lewis and the chapter on praying in the Whirlwind in Greg Boyd's Satan & the Problem of Evil.

In some of the essays, process philosophy seems to be commended on the grounds that its categories do better what the categories recommended by alternative hermeneutics (notably, Bultmann's demythologizing by way of «existential interpretation») do poorly.

The entire work would have come off better if the author had skipped the assertions of research and simply done it as an confessional essay entitled something on the order of «Afraid of Ourselves.»

Not much more than ten years ago a competent student of mine at the University of Chicago who had done good experimental work trying to help addicts wrote his B. D. essay on this subject.

Her crowning achievement, Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling, is paradigmatic of the «Post-Whiteheadian» philosophizing this volume celebrates, and it is most appropriate that her spirit, as well as her title, hover over these explorations of «Philosophy After Whitehead.»

As Bellah noted in his initial essay on the subject, civil religion in America seems to function best when it apprehends «transcendent religious reality... as revealed through the experience of the American people»; yet the growing interdependence of America with the world order appears to «necessitate the incorporation of vital international symbolism into our civil religion» (Beyond Belief [Harper & Row, 1970], pp. 179, 186).

These essays too show remarkable staying power, particularly the provocatively titled «On the Political Stupidity of the Jews,» his own exploration of the familiar puzzle of American Jews» fierce, visceral, but in many ways irrational and self - defeating commitment to liberalism, and his suggestions for a possible way forward in that regard» an effort to formulate a sound and well - grounded tradition of specifically Jewish political thought.

In an essay on «Baptists and Church - State Issues in the Twentieth Century,» in the December 1987 American Baptist an issue he coedited, he gave fellow Baptists a well - deserved scolding for having forgotten their own contributions to separation of church and state and for the «serious erosion of ecclesiology which afflicts them....

One of the best essays is on the subject of Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Britain in 2010.

It's narrow minded and also this essay doesn't even fully explain his point of view on why his is better (edited down, perhaps).

There are also very fine critical essays on great modern French authors, as well as acerbic pieces taking on the puerile atheism of folks like Christopher Hitchens.

It offers the standard Hebrew text, a parallel English translation (edited by Chaim Potok, best known as the author of «The Chosen»), a page - by - page exegesis, periodic commentaries on Jewish practice and, at the end, 41 essays by prominent rabbis and scholars on topics ranging from the Torah scroll and dietary laws to ecology and eschatology.

In the first paragraph of the first essay of The Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton introduced the basic theme: «It seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force.»

Wesley writes that, for him, much of this shame was lifted when he encountered C.S. Lewis» essay «The Weight of Glory» — a literary reflection on the moment when God glorifies his people, when followers of Jesus hear God declare, «Well done, my good and faithful servant.»

The essays focus primarily on the issue of human cloning, but some give some attention to animal cloning as well.

Read his essay on Tradition and the Individual Talent, as well as Four Quartets, when he's less concerned with depicting moribund Europe, to catch a sense of what I speak.

His essay on «The Efficacy of Prayer» is one of the best explanations of prayer I have read.

A collection of little essays on a host of virtues» personal, social, and sacred» by a Canadian philosopher well «versed in the traditions of both Athens and Jerusalem.

T. S. Eliot, in his essay on «Religion and Literature,» neatly sums up both the approach and the goal: «So long as we are conscious of the gulf fixed between ourselves [as Christians] and the greater part of contemporary [culture], we are more or less protected from being harmed by it, and are in a position to extract from it what good it has to offer us.»

Schubert Ogden has written an essay on «The Strange Witness of Unbelief» (included in his book The Reality of God, SCM Press, London, 1967), in which he demonstrates how often it is the very negators of meaning whose way of life, attitude toward others, and struggle for a «better world» exhibit a dim yet pervasive feeling of significance in the world and in their own existence, a sense of meaning that (as Ogden argues and as I believe) is a hidden working of divine Love in their hearts.

I once seized on these terms to ascribe a theory of nontemporal subjectivity to Whitehead.11 While in many ways I regard that essay as one of my best achievements, its general premise was wrongheaded.

Instead, they carefully went through his many speeches and culled out certain lines of thought, such as his strong words on behalf of the poor, which they used as best they could in the short essays they hurriedly typed up and sent into the meeting through friendly bishops.

In 1968, he won the award for best editorial of the year from the Catholic Press Association» Catholics liked giving awards to a Lutheran in those days; they thought of it as being bravely trendy and ecumenical» for an essay on abortion, and he cried, «The pro-abortion flag is being planted on the wrong side of the liberal - conservative divide.»

Kramer brings these commitments to bear on Susan Sontag in one of the best essays in the collection.

From this point on in his essay Wang dealt with practical implications of his exposition of manifesting the clear character, loving the people, and abiding in the highest good.

For a piece on economic discourse this election season (spoiler: it could be better), I've been re-reading parts of Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation and John Maynard Keynes» 1930 essay «Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren.»

I have been pushed into doing so by the fact that a good part of the argument in this essay turns on the use of pronouns; and I am particularly concerned to note how the word «we» is used religiously and by scholars of religion.

His essays on civil rights, for example, are heartfelt and penetrating, but are not even a very good description of the predicament of the American liberal.

In addition to preparing the essays on the Gospels of Matthew and John, both of them rich with perceptive and unexpected observations, Kermode offers an extremely good introduction to the New Testament, balancing Alter's equally adroit introduction to the Old — though why, with scholars of the stature of Robert M. Grant and Harry Gamble available, Kermode took upon himself the task of supplying the chapter on the making of the canon is anybody's guess.

In this essay a good deal of the emphasis upon the encounter with the historical Jesus by means of an existentialist historiography was quietly dropped, and attention was more sharply focused on the basic parallel between the message of Jesus and the kerygma of the early Church, and on the significance of scholarly study of the message of Jesus for the Church.

The shortcoming of this brief book, perhaps inherent in the author's polemical task, is that it is negative, and to see how well Kimball conveys his own appreciations of great art a reader must look to his other works (his rich essays on Eakins and Delacroix, for instance, in his collection titled Art's Prospect).

«No religion,» writes T. S. Eliot in his famous essay on Lancelot Andrewes, «can survive the judgment of history unless the best minds of its time have collaborated in its construction.»

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His career highlights at S.I. include road trips in search of sports on the equator, the world's most dangerous sport and Roman gladiators as the first sports superstars, a lengthy meditation on Don King's hair, the second - ever descent of Africa's Zambezi River, a weighty essay on the 580 - pound sumo wrestler Konishiki, an investigation into the questionable around - the - world run by Robert Garside, a look inside the mind games at the 1987 world chess championship between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in Seville, Spain, three weeks in the Sahara covering the 2002 Paris - to - Dakar Rally, a trudge through Panama's Darien jungle retracing Vasco Núñez de Balboa's 1513 expedition, and a journey into the world of Jeopardy! His essay on George Steinbrenner and the New York Yankees» line of succession was called the «scoop of the year» in the 2008 Houghton - Mifflin collection The Best American Sports Writing.

... and we'll see 13 «Doc to Dallas» rumors, five essays on why Austin will be better than Jason Terry, three posts comparing Rivers favorably to Rodrigue Beaubois and the most atrocious set of proposed nicknames you've ever seen.

While I can't say I understand any better what's going on now that I've read the essays, I was particularly drawn to Jen Doll's essay, The Burden of Choice: What it Means to Be -LSB-...]

Mehta acknowledged in his essay that some of this inequity is on the supply side: Schools that have the freedom and resources to adopt the techniques of deeper learning are more likely to be well - funded independent schools or public schools in wealthy suburbs or neighborhoods.

While I can't say I understand any better what's going on now that I've read the essays, I was particularly drawn to Jen Doll's essay, The Burden of Choice: What it Means to Be a Modern American Female.