{"id":11567,"date":"2018-12-07T12:10:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T17:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=11567"},"modified":"2018-12-07T12:10:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T17:10:30","slug":"new-collection-of-epstein-essays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=11567","title":{"rendered":"New Collection of Epstein Essays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following up on yesterday&#8217;s post about <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=11562\">expanding book coverage<\/a> of a likely political nature, we have word of a new collection of essays from Joseph Epstein: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2QmKGRj\">The Ideal of Culture.<\/a><\/em>\u00a0Jonathan Leaf praises it and the man who created it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/home.isi.org\/joseph-epstein-perfect-critic?utm_source=Intercollegiate+Studies+Institute+Subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=7fb67e83fd-Intercollegiate+Review+December+6+2018&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_3ab42370fb-7fb67e83fd-93341329&amp;goal=0_3ab42370fb-7fb67e83fd-93341329&amp;mc_cid=7fb67e83fd&amp;mc_eid=883f6cceab\">Epstein is very much of the opinion that possession of Culture<\/a>\u2014with the capital\u00a0<em>C<\/em>\u2014is a lifelong endeavor that enriches daily life and reflects both inculcation and determined striving.<\/p><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>. . . Nonetheless, the book\u2019s publication is unlikely to be noted in the most celebrated organs of commentary. That is because, in today\u2019s thought-policed intellectual world, Epstein is probably best known for having defied the politically correct authorities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who&#8217;s organizing the raising of a monument for this man?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on yesterday&#8217;s post about expanding book coverage of a likely political nature, we have word of a new collection of essays from Joseph Epstein: The Ideal of Culture.\u00a0Jonathan Leaf praises it and the man who created it. Epstein is very much of the opinion that possession of Culture\u2014with the capital\u00a0C\u2014is a lifelong endeavor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=11567\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Collection of Epstein Essays<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[1520],"class_list":["post-11567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","tag-joseph-epstein"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}