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Jake MeadorEconomicsc.s. lewis

The Sense of Ownership is Always to be Encouraged - Commonplaces

Lewis, writing as Screwtape, on the question of how one uses “their” time:

Jake Meador

Sertillanges on the Intellectual Virtues - Commonplaces

According to Sertillanges, the good and the true flourish in the same soil and so they cannot be ultimately separated.

Jake Meador

Sertillanges on the Intellectual Virtues - Commonplaces

According to Sertillanges, the good and the true flourish in the same soil and so they cannot be ultimately separated.

Jake Meadorc.s. lewis

The Future is Least Like Eternity - Commonplaces

CSL in Screwtape writing about the relationship between vice and obsession with the future:

Jake Meadorc.s. lewis

The Future is Least Like Eternity - Commonplaces

CSL in Screwtape writing about the relationship between vice and obsession with the future:

Jake Meador

Sertillanges on the Amateur Scholar - Commonplaces

Sertillanges counsels those aspiring scholars who, due to other obligations, think they lack the time to do real scholarship.

Jake Meador

Sertillanges on the Amateur Scholar - Commonplaces

Sertillanges counsels those aspiring scholars who, due to other obligations, think they lack the time to do real scholarship.

Jake Meador

The Jingling Bells of Publicity - Commonplaces

A. D. Sertillanges offers a devastating rebuke of much of the work done by today's "public intellectuals."

Jake Meador

The Jingling Bells of Publicity - Commonplaces

A. D. Sertillanges offers a devastating rebuke of much of the work done by today's "public intellectuals."

Jake Meador

Plough Magazine: The Hole in Wendell Berry's Gospel - Commonplaces

Plough Magazine features a common but wrong-headed critique of Berry's work.

Jake Meador

Plough Magazine: The Hole in Wendell Berry's Gospel - Commonplaces

Plough Magazine features a common but wrong-headed critique of Berry's work.

Jake MeadorChurchEconomics

The Puritan Society - Commonplaces

Early American history scholar Francis Bremer describes the Puritan doctrine of the commonwealth.