Bilbo's Random Thought Collection

There were two interesting, related articles in different sections of this morning's Washington Post. The first, on page B3 of the Metr...

This week's issue of Newsweek magazine looks back 20 years to the publication of E.D. Hirsch's book Cultural Literacy: What Every Am...

One of my favorite commentators, historian Victor Davis Hanson, has once again hit the nail on the proverbial head. In an article titled ...

While reading Eric Hoffer's book The Passionate State of Mind , I found the following wonderful, pithy observation: "The hardest th...

Finally, a sudden blast of common sense has blown through Washington, DC. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have affected the Executive...

Alan Johnston, the BBC's Gaza-based reporter who was kidnapped back in March by a radical Islamist group, has reappeared in a video - we...

Agnes and I just returned this morning from a visit to my oldest son and his family in Ohio, where he hosted a mini-family reunion. My young...

I hadn't planned to post again until Sunday, when I come back from visiting my grandchildren, but I have a few minutes before heading to...

I've often complained in this space about the drivers who try to kill me every day as I cross the street on my way to work. A bad driver...

As part of the research for a paper I'm trying to write, I have re-read several books by Eric Hoffer, the "Longshoreman Philosopher...