Why Read Pascal? David Lazear a meditation on the colour

a meditation on the colour blue

court bureaucrats

and smooshing cards around on the table

Herbert Herblock Block (who so enraged Richard Nixon that the president canceled his subscription to the Washington Post)

and surprised

Why Read Pascal? David Lazear a meditation on the colourBlaise Pascal (1623 1662) is known in the English speaking world principally for the wager (an argument that it is rational to do what will affect belief in God and irrational not to), and, more generally, for the Pensees, a collection of philosophical and theological fragments of unusual emotional and intellectual intensity collected and published after his death. He thought and wrote, however, about much more than this: mathematics; physics; grace,