Month: February 2016

Mandeville, LA - "Northrop Frye, in speaking of the pattern of comedy, describes it as a "parabola": "a U-shaped plot, with the action sinking into deep and potentially tragic complications and then suddenly turning upward into a happy ending." The bottom of this figure Frye calls "saturnalia," after the ritualized and socially purgative disorder of the Roman holiday— a moment when reality is inverted against its proper nature and turned […]

Mandeville, LA -  Wilhelm Röpke as Successful Prophet: "Fortunately, in discussing family size, Röpke’s priority lay elsewhere. While raising the matter in the context of the population question, he had a larger purpose in asking: [W]hat happens to man and his soul? What happens to the things which cannot be produced or expressed in monetary terms...but which are the ultimate conditions of man’s happiness and of the fullness and dignity […]

Mandeville, LA - What is really a long way off is this individuality and liberty the Daily Mail praised. It is the tower that a man has built for himself that is seen in the distance. It is Private Enterprise that is Utopian, in the sense of something as distant as Utopia. It is Private Property that is for us an ideal and for our critics an impossibility. It is that […]