Dangers of Retirement
By Peter Leithart
Brian Vickers taught and researched English literature at Zurich for several decades. He is an impressive literary scholar and historian who has written on Shakespeare, rhetoric, tragedy, edited Bacon and others, and produced a nice shelf full of deeply researched books.
He also seems to have run out of things to do. Nearly every recent issue of the TLS contains an irritated, erudite, cranky, frequently self-defensive letter from Vickers to the editor.
Peter Leithart
Peter J. Leithart is President of Theopolis Institute. He is the author of numerous books on theology, literature, and culture, including Theopolitan, Defending Constantine, and Baptized Body.
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