I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a colour photograph of God Almighty — and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine. Scientific truth was going to […]
Following here is an assignment: Find some object you hold near and dear. Something that can leap you into a backward narrative. Something to hold you as a memoir writer, going back, reflecting back. That thing, you can hold or touch. You find meaning in it. And, that object holds stories. Try and do this […]
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Glenn Diesen | It seems that the old Cold War ideological paradigm has now flipped, with Washington on the wrong side of history.
Theatrical masks of Tragedy and Comedy. Mosaic, Roman artwork, 2nd century CE. Capitoline Museums, Rome
Fist with pen illustration by CHema Skandal!
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
The Banality of Evil: Language Entrapment or Political Malevolence?
It seems a language game is being played. Or is it better understood as a political maneuver suffused with bad intentions?
The UN: Instrumental or Normative?
[Prefatory Note: A greatly modified version of this post was published in Middle East Eye on March 12, 2018, under the title, “The UN: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.”]
A Renewed Crisis of Confidence
During the OCA DOS Conference 2017, Chattanooga TN, (the local church is St. Tikhon Mission in Lookout Valley), Archbishop Alexander of Dallas and the South discusses Dionysius the Areopagite with a crowd at the Davidoff Lounge in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Bp. Alexander is consider the foremost living authority on the Dionysian corpus.
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