# Lord Chesterfield

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Episode 46: "The Importance of Being Earnest" Act 3

On today's episode of The Literary Life podcast, our fearless hosts discuss Oscar Wilde's unraveling of the tangle of plot points in Act 3 of The Importance of Being Earnest. Cindy Rollins talks about her reaction to Act 3 and how it gets resolved. Thomas Banks observes how Wilde sets up the con ...

Recode Decode: Jessica Weisberg traces the history of advice in ‘Asking for a Friend’

Writer and audio producer Jessica Weisberg talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about her new book, “Asking for a Friend: Three Centuries of Advice on Life, Love, Money, and Other Burning Questions from a Nation Obsessed.” Starting in 1690s London, Weisberg examines how advice became a cultural forc ...

Montesquieu

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689-1755) whose works on liberty, monarchism, despotism, republicanism and the separation of powers were devoured by intellectuals across Europe and New England in the eighteenth century ...

Ch.489 PRESENTING LORD CHESTERFIELD

Ch.489 PRESENTING LORD CHESTERFIELD by Bob Van Dyne

Samuel Johnson: The Wit, Wisdom, and Satire of a Literary Giant

The Cogitating Ceviche Presents Samuel Johnson: The Wit, Wisdom, and Satire of a Literary Giant Honoring the Satirists and Thinkers Who Altered Our Perspectives #55 By Conrad Hannon Narration by Amazon Polly This article is the 55th installment in our series, “Honoring the Satirists and Thinker ...

Episode 144: If You Don't Design Your Life, Someone Else Already Has — with Nathaniel A. Turner

I've been starting my mornings with a new ritual. Before I open my laptop or even check my phone, I sit down with my journal and write the story of my day — not what happened, but what I want to happen. I write as if it already did: the focused writing session, the ease in my meetings, the walk ...

September 14, 2026: The Eleven Days Parliament Had to Delete

A diplomat's personal irritation with mismatched dates on his own letters ended up rewriting an entire nation's calendar. On September 14, 1752, Britain completed its switch from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, a change championed in Parliament by Lord Chesterfield, whose smoother public p ...