When people critique “capitalism,” they usually mean one of two things:
- The currently dominant system of international free trade and global supply chains
- Greed
Usually it doesn’t take long to figure out which one they have in mind.
“Brilliance in controversy is a corrupting accomplishment. Always to play to win is to take one’s standards from one’s opponent, and local victory comes to displace every other consideration.” – Michael Oakeshott
Iowa morning
“This is the day the Lord has made!” said the very elderly lady in the breakfast room in the Hampton Inn of West Des Moines.
“Let us rejoice and be glad in it!” I replied.
She beamed. See, you can make someone’s day with just a little biblical literacy.
“I see nothing objectionable in the total destruction of the earth, provided it is done inadvertently.” — Evelyn Waugh
Packing for my visit to dear old Wheaton, where I will be digging into the vast Sayers materials in the Wade Center. I am bringing the three books absolutely necessary for studying the writers I work on.
Also, I wrote about Evelyn Waugh’s sanctuary lamp.
