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So, what are you reading?
Still on Paradise Lost. Satan always knows what to say.
Also starting Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his Son, which has been very worthwhile. He's a man both clever and decent, and he writes plainly about things that clever people often don't say. It also has gems like
I don't think he meant it, but it must have been something to get these letters.
Paper I'm reading: Podgorski's Dynamic Conservatism.
Chesterton, What's Wrong With The World
It's a long series of short and funny meditations on politics and philosophy. A typical paragraph:
I disagree with many of them - e.g. the above hints at distributism, the idea that individuals will make better use of their property if they own and work it independently, rather than a few capitalists owning it all. But the capitalists mostly make more efficient and productive use of it, which is why individuals sell their productive capital to capitalists - the capitalists can pay more for it than the individual would make on his own. But it's still funny.
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