In his 1942 swan song, The New Leviathan, dying British philosopher-historian R.G. Collingwood called the life of the mind “a magic journey.” Remarkably free of illusions regarding the life of the university, however, Collingwood argued for “domesticating” professors, rather than being subject to them. But things have only gotten worse since then. Whether “public” or...
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The Elite of El Bronx
The Hispanic elite have decided that the best way to control the lives of millions of Latin immigrants and illegal aliens flooding into America’s cities is to prevent them from learning English. The elites can then preside over a separate, parallel “Hispanic Nation,” full of angry, illiterate victims of “white racism.” Recent developments at the...
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Mistress of Deceit
Oxford University Press advertises its Past Master series (of which this book is one) as being “a noble encyclopaedia of the history of ideas” in which “lucid and authoritative” modern critics introduce us to the best of what has been thought and written. Oxford seems to have dropped a brick on this one. Lucid? Here...
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Yeats: A Second Coming
W. B. Yeats: The Poems; Edited by Richard J. Finneran; Macmillan; New York When Yeats died in 1939 his poetry had not been completely collected and there was some doubt over the right text. His widow was involved in the editing of his work and she had strong and sometimes wrong ideas about...