Political divided Christian groups in America would do well to read John Greenleaf Whittier’s “Unity.”
Monthly Archives: October 2020
Poet Louise Glück, Nobel Laureate
American poet Louise Glück, the latest Nobel literature laureate, explore existential questions in a personal way in “Mother and Child.”
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Robinson: Love, Sympathy, Identification
Marilynne Robinson’s fiction is, as she puts it, “an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification.”
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Viewing Trump from Afar
Trump has been diminished by his run-in with Covid, reminding me of various characters who suddenly become small: Carroll’s Red Queen, Baum’s Wizard, and the usurper in Craik’s “Little Lame Prince.”
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Wittgenstein, a Philosophic Sam Spade
Ludwig Wittgenstein was inspired and influenced by, of all things, hardboiled detective fiction. As improbable as that seems, there are good reasons.
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Trump & Covid: Tragedy or Farce?
Was the Rose Garden event for Trump’s new SCOTUS pick–which became a Covid superspreader event–a Shakespearean tragedy? How about a farce?
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Milton on the Ten Commandments
In Milton’s view of Moses, the law he receives is a temporary measure, ultimately to be superseded by divine grace.
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Balzac Invented the 19th Century?!
According to Peter Brooks, we should all revisit Balzac, who (according to Oscar Wilde) invented the 19th century.
