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...also recalls the title of Lionel Trilling’s 1950 classic, “The Liberal Imagination.” Writing an introduction to a posthumous collection of Trilling’s essays in 2000, Leon Wieseltier praised the literary critic—along with theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin—for remaining clear-eyed in dark times, a “rationalist with night vision.” It’s worth noting that David Brooks also invokes Niebuhr in a New York Times column this week discussing Obama?...
...life is like. That's my day-to-day. I didn't know anyone as funny as Spicoli, and we didn't grow up in California, and we had burnouts instead of surfers, but I could relate to working at a shitty job at the mall and poor Judge Reinhold having to dress up like a pirate to deliver food, and also Jennifer Jason Leigh getting an abortion, which was really sad. It was honest, and you could tell it came from people who understood a certain community, and it just wanted to capture that twilight of childhood. I think...
...Friday, the New York Times broke a story about the famous "Serenity Prayer," part of which is cited above. For decades, it has been routinely attributed to the great Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. He wrote it, according to most accounts, for a sermon he gave in the summer of 1943. So certain is his daughter, Elisabeth Sifton, of its provenance, that she put out a book in 2003 about its connections with her father's views on peace and war. But the Times reports that an article in the Yale Alumni Magazine by a law librarian and quotation expert there...
...date, delivered in late March in Los Angeles. It would be a mistake, however, to dismiss him as a mouthpiece for McCain or as just another American neoconservative, for he is neither. Kagan is a realist, to be sure, reminiscent of earlier public intellectuals such as Raymond Aron, Reinhold Niebuhr and Walter Lippmann. The Return of History clocks in at a mere 100 pages. Its style is conversational, and it feels more like a breezy lecture than a weighty foreign-policy tome. Still, its message is sober and its argument subtle...
...area where almost nobody had done any climbing and we made six first ascents of mountains over 20,000 feet. That sort of experience is very difficult to come by these days. There are still lots of mountains around, but all the big ones have been done. Reinhold Messner was the first to reach the summit of all the 8,000-meter peaks [a feat the Italian mountaineer completed...