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The Problem of Evil
“Every lover of English poetry should read, and every student of English poetry should study George Herbert."
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Conservatism as Skeptical Solution to Life
“Custom is the great guide of human life”
Sep 19
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Style and Substance
To read The Annotated Big Sleep is to endure constant interruptions by a nerdy audience, eager to share esoteric facts.
Sep 12
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God, Faith, and other Alien Encounters
In the sci-fi film Contact Dr Eleanor Arroway is in love and at odds with Palmer Joss, a man of faith.
Sep 6
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Brad Skow
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Bowie in Berlin in Fragments
“I rammed him for a good five to ten minutes,” Bowie later recalled, between songs at a BBC concert in 2000.
Aug 29
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Brad Skow
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Lives of the Eminent Philosophers: Chilon to Pherecydes
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Aug 22
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“Hide not your face from me”
Bertrand Russell was once asked how he would justify his atheism, if he found himself before the pearly gates.
Aug 7
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What makes sad music sad?
On Appearance Emotionalism
Aug 2
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Paradise Regained Read Blind
Jesus fasted forty days in the desert, and was tempted by Satan. Paradise Regained is John Milton’s re-telling of those temptations, with expansions and…
Jul 25
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Brad Skow
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Moral Monsters
However evil you believe the Nazis were, the reality was worse.
Jul 18
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Shakespeare / Anarchy / Revolution
Is your work is underappreciated? Are you throwing pearls before swine? Take heart!
Jul 12
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Love of Country, II: America the beautiful
What is the American aesthetic? The question sounds like the setup for a joke. It must be as brash as a billboard advertisement, as saccharine as a…
Jul 1
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