{I do want to respond to nadezhda in greater depth at some point. I also understand that...
Rufus F.
Rufus is a likeable curmudgeon. He has a PhD in History, sang for a decade in a punk band, and recently moved to NYC after nearly two decades in Canada. He wrote the book "The Paris Bureau" from Dio Press (2021).
Since it’s Saturday and we’re all relaxing (sort of), I thought I’d post this John Waters interview...
Writing at the NYTimes, Ross Douthat tweaks the noses of liberals, who he says enjoy the culture...
What’s the real problem with the culture wars? Some weirdo suggests it’s that “the stakes are so...
{Note: Aristotle’s ‘De Anima’ is a work that has, admittedly, got me tied up in knots, which...
Here’s an evocative little poem by Ted Hughes. It’s not my favorite of his work (like a...
Salon recently posted a fascinating interview with journalist Meredith Maram, who falsely accused her father of molesting...
Did the Hebrews have a concept of madness? This strange question comes to mind as I read...
I’ve been thinking of reviving the Sunday poems here for some time now. This W.H. Auden poem...
Numbers and Deuteronomy complete the Pentateuch/Torah- the books of Moses depicting the creation of the world, the...
The conversation about the Crusades piqued my curiosity, so I read “The Conquest of Constantinople” by Geoffrey...
The ursine and passionate Andrew Sullivan emerges from his recent hibernation today with a must-read post about...
I rented Harlan County USA for Labor Day and found it, not surprisingly, to be an extremely...
Genesis contains some of the best-remembered stories of the Old Testament. But Exodus has narrative advantages over...
My wife has joked about the foolhardiness of blogging the Bible due to the likelihood of offending...
Socrates, we’ll remember, felt a reverent awe in the face of poetry. In Ion, god-inspired rhapsody had...
It was a disaster, a quagmire, a nightmare, and the American government should have never gotten us...
I’m not sure this is the best approach to “beer blogging”, but I thought I’d post something...
I realize we’ve reached mosque overload here, but I have an obscure textual question about a story...
Peter Jaworski holds an annual “Liberty Summer” event for fellow libertarians on his parents’ land in Orono,...
