| Description |
xii, 190 pages ; 23 cm |
| Summary |
Here are the virtues everyone was taught in Sunday school but have totally forgotten about. Eighteen conservative writers offer their insights on why both the classical and everyday virtues are still important... and why readers shouldn't get carried away with them. |
| Contents |
Introduction: on virtues, past and present / by Jonathan V. Last -- The cardinal virtues. The seven deadly virtues and The New York times / by P. J. O'Rourke -- Prudence: long live the queen / by Andrew Ferguson -- Justice: the one virtue nobody really wants / by Rob Long -- Courage: the rise of "shelter in place" America / by Michael Graham -- Temperance: the deadliest virtue / by Andrew Stiles -- Hope: Chicago is a place called hope / by David Burge (aka Iowahawk) -- Charity: you can't give this stuff away / by Mollie Hemingway -- Faith: the eleventh commandment / by Larry Miller -- The everyday virtues. Chastity: the final taboo / by Matt Labash -- Simplicity: or, the many-splendored virtues of hoarding / by James Lileks -- Thrift: the un-American virtue / by Joe Queenan -- Honesty: it's absolutely the best policy (sometimes) / by Rita Koganzon -- Fellowship: reach out and touch someone / by Christine Rosen -- Forbearance: opting out of the politicized life / by Sonny Bunch -- Integrity: living by the code of the superman / by Jonah Goldberg -- Curiosity: Maybe the cat got what it had coming / by Christopher Caldwell -- Perseverance: all the way to the end / by Christopher Buckley. |
| Subject |
Conduct of life -- Humor.
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Virtues -- Humor.
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| Added Author |
Last, Jonathan V., 1974- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781599474601 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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1599474603 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
40024266431 |
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