Art for the Inartful
Before I was an art major, I was a music major, and before I was a music major I was a math major. In addition to going through three majors on a way to...
Daily Archive: January 5, 2012
The Biblical Renaissance and English Poetry
Not long ago, David Cameron delivered a speech extolling the continuing cultural relevance of the King James Bible (h/t Joe Carter). It stands as a fairly strong encapsulation of much of what has been...
Is Social Mobility Overrated?
A pretty good piece in the New York Times today about social mobility in America or, more accurately, the lack thereof. While the article cites the same studies and charts about European vs. American...
Note on Zola
In his 1877 preface to, and defence of, his novel L’Assommoir, Émile Zola writes: “I wanted to depict the inexorable downfall of a working class family in the poisonous atmosphere of our industrial suburbs. Intoxication...
Resurrection of a book club – The Darkness that Comes Before
My sincere apologies to everyone who was, er, participating in this bookclub. With recent job changes and the holidays and some other things it sort of fell off the face of the earth. I’m...
Perpetual Check
The Islands of the Blessed are sort of like Hawaii, but more. And a whole lot less crowded. The uplands resemble the south of France. Which is to say that they’re really quite nice,...
The Hanging of Hosni Mubarak
Hosni Mubarak faces death by hanging. Though today’s newspapers are full of breathless reporting via al-Ahram, the state owned newspaper, Mubarak’s foreordained destination was always the gallows, known at least since April of last...
She Was An American Girl Raised On Promises (Of Due Process)
Jakadrian Turner was 14 years old in November of 2010 when, despondent over her parents’ divorce and the recent death of her grandfather, she ran away from her home in Dallas, Texas. Somehow, she made...
