Archives for December 25, 2019

Peter Warlock’s “Bethlehem Down,” performed by Stephen Cleobury and the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, in 2016:

(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)

“It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.”

William James, “Is Life Worth Living?”