Seven Spirits of God, by William Blake __________________________________________ and, from The Everlasting Gospel The vision of Christ...
Erik Kain
Erik writes about video games at Forbes and politics at Mother Jones. He's the contributor of The League though he hasn't written much here lately. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter.
“So, the latest New York Times OP/ED page conservative affirmative action case has his debut editorial for...
Upon returning from her visit to the West Bank last month, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton remarked,...
“But the argument isn’t going away. It will be with us as long as the threat of...
…but I hope all our regular commenters will at some point sign up for a free gravatar…
Christ’s crucifixion was a sort of torture, and His death on the cross a symbol of the...
…everything is scarier, more urgent. Like this swine flu epidemic. I’m really nervous about this, especially living...
John Judis would like to have more discussion about the possibility of ditching the CIA, or at...
“What you see in the relationship between torturer and tortured is the absolute darkness of totalitarianism. You...
I want to follow up on this with an examination of Community vs. Rights in light of...
“And then, where is the use of torture? It is a slippery trial and uncertain (says Ulpian)...
….the Republican Party is renamed the “National Socialist Party.” Fair’s fair.
“I told you about these people. They only mate with their own kind. It’s yuppie inbreeding. That’s...
“It’s perfectly possible to think both at once: that real-world torture is ineffective, and that fantasy-world effective...
So my wife tells me yesterday that I’m not conservative. She asks me how exactly I consider...
“I’m sick to frigging death of people – self-identifiedly conservative or otherwise – whose reaction to the...
Okay, I’m still trying to figure out why these Tea Parties bother me so much. There’s a...
“The notion that differences of opinion between the Catholic church and U.S. law will somehow render Catholic...
“Twitter is social networking for the postapocalypse, a Spartan chatsystem for survivalists suffering from a radical scarcity...
