Sublime

We will be known as a culture that feared death

and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity

for the few and cared little for the penury of the

many. We will be known as a culture that taught

and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke

little if at all about the quality of life for

people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All

the world, in

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The aspect of Scott Buchanan’s life to which this memoir relates began, for me at least, with a college lecture he gave in October of 1944.

The lecture was a flight of high speculative fancy in which he tried to imagine the features of a Republic of Learning joined with a political republic.

If man is a political animal, his virtues compromised and

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