To clarify: the title is excerpted from Act 1 of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. The full quote goes: "Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile; So ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes." It's a warning against spending too much of your life in scholarly pursuits.
Day By Day
Monday, June 16, 2008
Heroes
Claudia Anderson has a nice piece in the latest edition of the Weekly Standard noting parallels in the lives of Frederick Douglass and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. It's a cute journalistic conceit, a nice testimonial to two people in the forefront of the fight against evil, and it reminds us that there are still heroes in this world.
Read it here.