The Patriot

Here’s a fun talk by a lexicographer about why dictionaries are not really books.

Dictionary and other book-shaped objects

Here’s a quote from Russell Kirk in his book Enemies of the Permanent Things (1969).

If men assume that norms are no better than the pompous fabrications of their ancestors, got up to serve the interests of a faction or an age, then every rising generation will challenge the principles of personal and social order, and will learn wisdom only through agony.