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husband, father, writer. Paul Claudel's Five Great Odes (Angelico Press 2020); Absolute Music: a novel (Slant Books 2022)
Michigan, USA
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This was great all around. Also nerve-racking for me, as I’d never before read from a work in progress. For me, the very best part was talking to some bright young students afterwards. I recommend @FavaleAbs’s first novel to all. May more follow.
New arrival, possibly the single greatest book purchase of my life. This is my soul: language and the land—the land of my mother tongue.
I hope you’ll continue to follow my reading and writing on s*bst*ck. This account closes on the Feast of the Assumption/Dormition (8/15/25).
I say this with some piety: “Jews vs Rome” would make for an awesome RPG along the lines of Britannia, Pendragon or Paladin…
Anyway, looking forward to the book previewed here.
"Jews vs Rome" is the title of the forthcoming book by @barrystrauss from @simonschuster. As a taster of the captivating content this exciting work has to offer, today he offers an account of the rise of Herod the Great in the fast-changing Mediterranean: antigonejournal.com/2025/07/…
I'm about done with this platform. One or two more announcements (which I'm sure the algorithm will make sure that few see) and I'll be moving my social media presence exclusively to @RadiopaperHQ and that site which is a kind of stack: for ye philhellenes, the Hypothemata.
Beginning 13 years ago when I read The Beauty of the Infinite, my relation to the work of DBH has gone through seasons of delight and annoyance, but I have to say I’m looking forward to this book more than any other he’s published.
The Light of Tabor undpress.nd.edu/978026821041…
Recently a young woman was baptized at Sunday Mass. The priest, apparently rather spontaneously, decided to give her more than the usual dosage of water over the font—a real deluge. She had missed the baptism with the other converts at Easter Vigil because she was busy then /
I don’t think I’d bother with coffee with any of them but I’d drink real ale with Thomas More and talk with him about law.
With Augustine I’d talk music over wine.
With Aquinas I’d walk. Really far. Which would of course make us thirsty…
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Major milestone today: the lady at the [eastern] European market, where I go to buy kashkeval and pickles as God intended them and some beer, spoke to me in Polish. She pretty quickly switched to English. Nevertheless, I choose to interpret this as a positive sign.
Wonderful series of books I’ve discovered at my parents’ home. How I wish I’d studied these when I was young. Real knowledge for the real world: why has it been so easy for so many of us to lose sight of it?
There are actually six words, or five with the elision, and they are:
Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate
Today I heard the Declaration of Independence read aloud in its entirety at the Old North Bridge in Concord MA. It was a moving experience. America remains, though in a time of terrible confusion, the great experiment—thanks in large measure to the mother country. It’s funny /
For 1000 years the university has been *the* cornerstone institution of western civilization. That epoch is rapidly drawing to a close.
NEW: Public universities in Indiana are cutting hundreds of degree programs to comply with a new law that requires every program to meet a threshold number of graduates per year.
Here are the 116 programs being cut at Indiana University Bloomington:
A.A. in General Studies
A.S. in Audio Engineering and Sound Production
B.A. in African American and African Diaspora Studies
B.A. in American Studies
B.A. in Art History
B.A. in Central Eurasian Studies
B.A. in Classical Civilization
B.A. in Classical Studies-Latin and Greek
B.A. in Comparative Literature
B.A. in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
B.A. in East Asian Studies
B.A. in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
B.A. in French
B.A. in Gender Studies
B.A. in Germanic Studies
B.A. in India Studies
B.A. in Italian
B.A. in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
B.A. in Portuguese
B.A. in Religious Studies
B.A. in Slavic and East European Languages & Cultures
B.A. in Spanish
B.A./B.S. in Cognitive Science
B.A./B.S. in Geography
B.F.A. in Dance
B.S. in Atmospheric Science
B.S. in Computational Linguistics
B.S. in Earth Science
B.S. in Environmental Geoscience
B.S. in Molecular Life Sciences
B.S. in Music/Ballet
B.S. in Organizational and Business Psychology
B.S. in Statistics
B.S.Ed. in Chemistry
B.S.Ed. in English
B.S.Ed. in General Science/Earth-Space Science
B.S.Ed. in Journalism
B.S.Ed. in Mathematics
B.S.Ed. in Physics
B.S.Ed. in Social Studies
B.S.Ed. in Visual Arts
B.S.P.H. in Community Health
B.S.P.H. in Environmental Health
B.S.P.H. in Epidemiology
B.S.P.H. in Fitness and Wellness
B.S.P.H. in Sexual and Reproductive Health
D.Mus.Ed. in Music
DrPH in Population Health
Ed.D./Ph.D. in Learning and Developmental Sciences
Ed.D./Ph.D. in Special Education
Ed.S. in Educational Leadership
M.A. in African Studies
M.A. in Central Eurasian Studies
M.A. in Chinese
M.A. in Classical Studies – Latin and Greek
M.A. in Communication and Culture
M.A. in Comparative Literature
M.A. in East Asian Studies
M.A. in European Studies
M.A. in French
M.A. in German-Germanic Studies
M.A. in Italian
M.A. in Japanese
M.A. in Journalism
M.A. in Latin American Studies
M.A. in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
M.A. in Portuguese
M.A. in Second Language Studies
M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures
M.A. in TESOL and Applied Linguistics
M.A. in Theatre and Drama
M.A.T. in Biology
M.A.T. in Classical Studies-Latin and Greek
M.A.T. in Comparative Literature
M.A.T. in Fine Arts
M.A.T. in French
M.A.T. in Geography
M.A.T. in German
M.A.T. in Journalism
M.A.T. in Political Science
M.A.T. in Slavic Languages and Literatures
M.A.T. in Spanish
M.A.T. in Theatre and Drama
M.S. in Anatomy
M.S. in Applied Statistics
M.S. in Nursing Education
M.S. in Statistical Science
M.S.Ed. in Art Education
M.S.Ed. in Elementary Education
M.S.Ed. in History and Philosophy of Education
M.S.Ed. in International and Comparative Education
M.S.Ed. in Secondary Education
M.S.Ed. in Social Studies Education
M.S.Ed. in Special Education
Master of Comparative Law
Ph.D. in African American and African Diaspora Studies
Ph.D. in American Studies
Ph.D. in Art History
Ph.D. in Astrophysics
Ph.D. in Chemical Physics
Ph.D. in Chinese
Ph.D. in Classical Studies-Latin and Greek
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature
Ph.D. in French
Ph.D. in Gender Studies
Ph.D. in German-Germanic Studies
Ph.D. in Italian
Ph.D. in Japanese
Ph.D. in Mathematical Physics
Ph.D. in Portuguese
Ph.D. in Public Policy
Ph.D. in Second Language Studies
Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures
Ph.D. in Spanish
Ph.D. in Statistical Science
Ph.D. in Theatre and Drama
Also: played this for my sons and within a minute they were asking to listen to the Neverending Story soundtrack. I rest my case.
In a different spirit (or is it entirely?) from my previous post, you listen to this (and watch it) and think, I could just live this way forever. I get the trend—one of the only times in my life I’ve been able to say this.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=fx2GD3…
In a different spirit (or is it entirely?) from my previous post, you listen to this (and watch it) and think, I could just live this way forever. I get the trend—one of the only times in my life I’ve been able to say this.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=fx2GD3…
There’s some kind of nostalgia-that’s-actually-the-future here, right @kalezelden?













