[cornelis]

Inge in Studies of English Mystics 1907. The first chapter, first of St. Margeret's lectures at Westminster) is Inge at his best. It seems that Pipes has studied out the implications of law using Soviet events as example--a topic that arose on this thread: A World Split Apart . Looks like Pipe's writing frequents the New York Review of Books.

Last night I was very happy with my recent purchase from Barnes & Noble: Dover's edition of Heath's Euclid (paperback, 3 vol. $10 each) You have to like it because it gives the axioms (A point is that which has no part; A line is a breadthless length) in Greek! (link for Bodleian MS pic) Shmeion estin, ou meroV ouqen. And then commentary on the Greek replete with references to Plato and Aristotle. Somehow that cigar had come to life last night.

Today its Jaspers on Kant. Jaspers is very readable and this edition is only $9.

[William McKinley]

Very cool.

My lastest bit of reading is a history tome: The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party- Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War by Michael F. Holt.

This book is making it extremely clear to me that the more things change, the more things stay the same.

However, it is both interesting and heartening to consider that Bush may be doing to the Democrats what Jackson did to the National Republicans.