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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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Brad Skow
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What makes sad music sad?
On Appearance Emotionalism
Aug 2
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Brad Skow
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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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Brad Skow
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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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Brad Skow
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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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Brad Skow
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Love of Country, I
Patriotism gets some side-eye from many, and—in elite clubs and back-room meetings—patriotic Americans get more. But patriotism can be defended, and is…
Jun 30
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Brad Skow
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Lives of the Eminent Philosophers: Thales
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Jun 27
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Brad Skow
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“With complete disregard for his own safety”
There is “poetry in the raw” commemorating the Americans who fought in WWII, hidden in government-issued documents, especially the awards for heroism…
Jun 25
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Brad Skow
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Aesthetic Nano-Manifesto
Lady Macbeth wasn’t sure her husband had it in him, to kill a king:
Jun 21
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Brad Skow
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“Birds of prey hover over it”
Unequaled among Americans, Lincoln does have a mirror-image, or counterpart, in Herman Melville, who’s style is as Romantic, lop-sided, and ebullient as…
Jun 17
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Brad Skow
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Writers Without Babies
Review of Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed
Jun 13
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Brad Skow
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