Essays

I wrote these essays during the last few years. In the spirit of the essay, which means attempt, I used them to sketch out my ideas on a wide range of topics. I imagine them more as starting points for discussion and thought than as conclusions. I hope you find them a spur to reflection.

Wesley Cecil

• On Subtlety


• A Renaissance Library Meets the Public


• Facts Contra Knowledge


• Emancipation as a Negative Freedom


• State of the Art: Walking in America


• On Leisure


• And Then . . . Nothing


• What Once was Lost


• Too Late for American English?


• Philosophy contra Faith


• Greed?


• So, You are Feeling Poor?


• The Betrayals of the Writer


• The Local Economy: A Primer


• Teach Less, Slowly