[genesis in Joel Porte’s “Representative Man”.] In an early Lecture of 1839 called “Human Life” Emerson reveals a kind of self-diagnosis of his “fear of aging”, or rather of dying young without great achievement, but…
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Douglas Storm is a host and producer for Interchange on Bloomington, Indiana's community radio station WFHB.
"Why then do you try to 'enlarge' your mind? Subtilize it..."
Cape Cod Photo Journal – Eastham, Orleans and Chatham
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Cape Cod Dispatches: Day 1–Events of Importance
[Posting will be light, but still daily, and very errant–well, not really errant as you’ve likely noticed the argument even if errant, always circles back to where I set out.] Walking in the woods it…
“It contains us.” Setting Poetry’s Course in Tranströmer
[This piece began as an email between its author and Indiana Poet Laureate Karen Kovacik but grew deeper out of a discussion with Errant contributor Eric Sargent. I have stolen freely from Mr. Sargent. That’s…
Occupy School Reform: Against Stealing Our Public Schools
I don’t know how to tell you this; we’re getting our asses handed to us on a platter. By we, I mean those of us who are against the corporate school reform movement. My friend…
A Union of Love and Friendship
The Errant offers words on love and friendship from Massachusetts in honor of a ceremonial inerrancy. “This union…by which two lives are one, this sweet and strange adoption wherein we can but look, and are…
Eye (DARPA) in the Sky: Uncle Sam To Convert To Yahweh
From Emerson’s book “Nature”: Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball-I am nothing; I see all;…
Homo Moronus: Institutionalizing Ignorance One Voucher at a Time
Michael Dirda, book reviewer extraordinaire, opens his essay review on Jenny Uglow’s “The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World” this way: “In the time of the Lunar men science and art were…
Hedges’ CBC Interview on Occupy Wall Street: 7 Minutes of Media Anatomy
My friend Chad posted a Youtube video of Chris Hedges (you read his work, right?) discussing the Occupy Wall Street situation and Hedges’ “involvement” in it with a CBC morning show called “Lang and O’Leary”. …
Brave Thinkers? Peter Thiel wants to buy your kid’s ideas. Brilliant!
Okay, I subscribe to the Atlantic Monthly, but I’m not sure why. If it weren’t for James Fallows I would not even breathe a positive sigh in its direction. Mostly I see it as an…