Concerning a proposal (not by me) to make a “strategic withdrawal” from public life in order to restore the imagined virtues of the Middle Ages.
What in the 1960s was a commune is now an intentional community. I lived in one in the mid-1990s, when I was in graduate school.
Note added January 13, 2019. This essay concerns a letter I once wrote about
Since the ideas of Collingwood often dominate this blog, one may ask why they influence me. My old letter provides some evidence, since I wrote it before I had read anything by Collingwood but The Principles of Art.
The present essay has the first of this blog’s several mentions of the slogan
Verba volant scripta manent,
which may not mean what we tend to think today.
Polytropy 