I went to look for “Main’s Folly” the other day. It’s at the back of the church property, down the old road to the back and left at the Chinaberry grove where I used to preach every Easter. Go past ...

Sometimes you need to do the foolish thing. Or rather, what seems foolish to those who don’t see the point. Chasing a tiny white ball and whacking it with a stick might seem silly. But golf and ...

Maybe if he had read Erasmus’ “In Praise of Folly” he would realize that throwing around authors’ names does not, in fact, make you enlightened. Newman has offered us false profundity masquerading as ...

Explore great philosophy and science fiction books, each under 250 pages: - Changing Planes - Roadside Picnic - The Last Interview - Lessons in Stoicism - In Praise of Idleness - The Praise of ...

Erasmus wrote in The Praise of Folly (1509): “The less talent they have, the more pride, vanity and arrogance they have. All these fools, however, find other fools who applaud them.” ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. For our session on Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses, I was somehow possessed to supplement ...