'Imagine philosophers invested concurrently with thoughts of highest ideals and with a sense of humility concerning themselves and their place in the whole operation of life.'

Maybe Even Build a Boat hedgehogreview.com/web-features/t… via The Hedgehog Review

“Flaubert’s monogamous commitment to art is marked by a tonsure of torture: “I love my work with a love that is frantic and perverted, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt that scratches his belly.” Flaubert’s Antisentimental Sex hedgehogreview.com/issues/missing… via The Hedgehog Review

Here’s an idea: Go build a boat…or make some pottery. Lessons from a woodworker. hedgehogreview.com/web-features/t…

Wilderness is an idea worth keeping because it helps us remember the enduring value of parts of the world that are not fully “domesticated.” hedgehogreview.com/issues/missing…

My double review of The Letters of Gustave Flaubert and Ray MacKenzie 's new translation of Sentimental Education, originally published in the print edition of the The Hedgehog Review 's 'Missing Character' issue, is now available online in full:

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Hedgehogs on the town: senior editor ⁦Kyle Edward Williams⁩ and Angel Adams Parham on classical education and the black intellectual tradition. Thanks ⁦Kardinal Hall⁩ !

Hedgehog social gathering in Charlottesville on Thursday. Angel Adams Parham will be interviewed by
Kyle Edward Williams about classical education and the black intellectual tradition. Join us! iasculture.org/events/convers…

Ashley Barnes makes a case for recovering Henry James’s approach to literature and the transcendent. hedgehogreview.com/issues/missing…

James Davison Hunter’s new book, DEMOCRACY AND SOLIDARITY, is now out from Yale Univ Press. Order your copy today! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/978030027…

David Stromberg on what Camus can teach us about the conflict between Palestine and Israel. hedgehogreview.com/web-features/t…

Our Hedgehog Evening Discussion starts in ten minutes!

I wrote about nostalgia for The Hedgehog Review hedgehogreview.com/issues/missing…

Now out from behind the paywall, but only for a time (a time you may one day look back on in remembrance of happier days)

TOMORROW: Tal Brewer joins Jay Tolson to discuss his essay on parenting and the attention economy. Register now.
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The Swampy Pols of Mick Herron’s Spy Novels hedgehogreview.com/issues/missing…

NEW: Angel Adams Parham argues that getting beyond the limitations of higher education will require looking for imaginative ways of seeing the world differently. hedgehogreview.com/issues/missing…

Rediscovering the breadth and depth of formation in ancient practices of education. hedgehogreview.com/issues/missing…

Join us for a Hedgehog social gathering on May 2 in Charlottesville! Angel Adams Parham will be interviewed by Kyle Edward Williams about classical education, the black intellectual tradition, and vocation and the moral imagination. Learn more: iasculture.org/events/convers…

James Davison Hunter’s new book DEMOCRACY AND SOLIDARITY will be published by Yale Univ Press next week. Pre-order your copy today! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/978030027…