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Words, Sounds, Images, Ideas
"Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing." –Robert Benchley
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The Return of Paganism
Maybe there actually is a genuinely post-Christian future for the West. Hundreds of druids, pagans and revelers gather at the Avebury...
C.S. Lewis & The Beats
In this nearly magical room, amid fire-crackle and clink of glass, you can hear them talking. Pipe smoke is in the air, and a certain...
Not So-silent Planets
from WORLD magazine https://world.wng.org/2009/06/art_for_youths_sake The pianist Glenn Gould once began an interview with Leopold...
You Know These Men Better Than You Think...
...Or at least their ideas. The former music critic of TIME Magazine, on ideologies old and not-so-old. I had thought Jennifer Roback...
Great Minds...
Today's comic moment:
99 Bottles of Beer... in French
The plot of Exercises in Style is simple: a man gets into an argument with another passenger on a bus. However, this anecdote is told 99...
The Latest Batman: Hold on and Lego™
I liked "Lego Batman." A lot. A fact that probably says too much about me. It was a welcome reprieve from the steady flow of social...
'Superlatively well done.'
If you listen to some Catholic converts, you'd think Evelyn Waugh is to literature what Ralph Lauren has been to modern fashion. But that...
The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The improbable and true story of how Al Sharpton, Cornel West, Marion Barry’s wife, and Tucker Carlson (yes, that Tucker Carlson) flew to...
David Halberstam, RIP
April 25, 2007 • These days, reporters regularly gather to bemoan the demise of old journalism and the rise of blogs. Future historians...
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