What do progressives really want? By Lionel Shriver

The New Criterion. “Progressives do seem especially concerned for their own virtue. But I think the concern is more oftenfor being seen as virtuous. Being good is a great deal harder than appearing to be good, if only because the course of real goodness is diabolically difficult to chart. Real goodness is often private and unacknowledged, because… Read More What do progressives really want? By Lionel Shriver

Pentatonix Confusions

In the course of piano practice today I happened to run across this wholesome looking group of gifted singers, Pentatonix, performing beautiful Christmas songs and carols. OED: “The earliest known use of the noun carol is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED’s earliest evidence for carol is from before 1300, in Cursor Mundi: a Northumbrian poem of the 14th… Read More Pentatonix Confusions