Ideas Have Consequences (Enlarged) by Richard M Weaver gooseberry by John Singer Sargent

by John Singer Sargent

completed landscape drawing

and understand that the two eagles dancing across the sky are a mating pair

While the other snowflakes boast about their plans to travel on to glamorous and far off destinations-- the most beautiful mountain in the world or atop the golden pinnacle of the jeweled dome of the castle

make us fully alive

Ideas Have Consequences (Enlarged) by Richard M Weaver gooseberry by John Singer SargentOriginally published in 1948, at the height of post World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, Ideas Have Consequences uses "words hard as cannonballs" to present an unsparing diagnosis of the ills of the modern age. Widely read and debated at the time of its first publication, the book is now seen asone of the foundational texts of the modern conservative movement. In its pages, Richard M. Weaver argues that the decline of Western