Posts Tagged “Alan Jacobs”

Crooked men in a crooked world

By | July 7, 2008

“There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile.” — British nursery rhyme So I’m reading Alan Jacobs’ new book, Original Sin: A Cultural History, and several thoughts about human will and intention crisscross my mind: 1. The idea that our heart — in the classic sense, the seat of our intellect and [...]

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