Monthly Archives: September 2022

Against Vulgarity, After Lionel Trilling

Posted on September 21, 2022 by nathanalbright

In his seminal essay on Mansfield Park, literary critic Lionel Trilling said the following: “It is beyond human ingenuity to define what we mean by vulgarity, but in Jane Austen’s novels vulgarity has these elements : smallness of mind, insufficiency … Continue reading →

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Album Review: The Very Best Of Sting And The Police

Posted on September 21, 2022 by nathanalbright

The Very Best Of Sting And The Police, by Sting and the Police Some fifteen years or so after the first (and previously reviewed) best-of compilation and less than a decade after the first best-of compilation for Sting (to be … Continue reading →

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Album Review: Every Breath You Take: The Classics

Posted on September 20, 2022 by nathanalbright

Every Breath You Take: The Classics, by the Police This album was, perhaps not surprisingly, the first album of the Police I was ever familiar with in detail. Long before I ever even thought to listen to more of the … Continue reading →

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In Restraint Of Trade

Posted on September 20, 2022 by nathanalbright

We tend to think of music labels and traditional publishers as being in the business of releasing art and literature to the general public, but in reality these gatekeepers serve in restraint of trade rather than in the business of … Continue reading →

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Days Of Past Futures

Posted on September 19, 2022 by nathanalbright

Recently, I was listening to an online lecture that discussed the importance of studying the history of the Roman Republic–something I was inclined to study about myself already, obviously–and the speaker commented that one of the characteristics of the present … Continue reading →

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Cold, Cold Heart

Posted on September 18, 2022 by nathanalbright

After finishing with a Sabbath School lesson to the older class on the sacrifices, I sat down at my seat to listen to the last 45 minutes of a sermon given by a pastor of a congregation who was visiting … Continue reading →

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Willoughby And Ferrars: Two Peas In A Pod

Posted on September 17, 2022 by nathanalbright

One of the more interesting aspects of the way that Jane Austen’s Sense & Sensibility has been portrayed is the different feelings and judgments people make towards two of its male characters. When Marianne falls passionately in love with Willoughby, … Continue reading →

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They Don’t Care If You’re Hate Watching As Long As You’re Watching

Posted on September 16, 2022 by nathanalbright

This evening while I was eating dinner and watching, as is my custom, Thursday Night Football, I noticed that the television next to football was showing Game 3 of the WNBA championship. I must admit that while there was a … Continue reading →

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Album Review: I Need You (LeAnn Rimes)

Posted on September 16, 2022 by nathanalbright

I Need You, by LeAnn Rimes After waiting some time after the initial start of the career retrospective for LeAnn Rimes, the rankdown has now come to this particular album, which was initially released for contractual obligations on LeAnn Rimes’ … Continue reading →

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Outlining The Lipton Saga

Posted on September 15, 2022 by nathanalbright

Last year for my annual novella, I wrote about the beginning of the period of the Third Viscount Lipton, starting a saga in media res, where the middle-aged Viscount, newly installed with the title after the death of his elderly … Continue reading →

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