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Santi Tafarella’s blog on books, culture, and politics

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• Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Stacked Corpses
• Jerry Coyne's "Why Evolution is True": Intelligent Design in Checkmate?
• In 1935, Were Cary Grant and Randolf Scott Sex Partners? No, But These Images Look Rather Camp
• Longing and Broken Connection in a Van Gogh Painting
• Put Your Head on Your Own Shoulder: A Modigliani Portrait of a Nude Woman Satisfied, for the Moment, with Herself Alone
• Moscow's UFO Mothership Cloud Akin to the Hexagon on Saturn?
• Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Children Experimented upon at Auschwitz
• Republican Tim Pawlenty: Young Earth Creationist?
• Daniel Dennett: the Vanquisher of "Deepity" Religion---and Poetry?
• Swine Flu Symptoms: Ache, Coughing, Sneezing, Fever. If You Have Any of These Symptoms, Stay Home
• This Hans Holbein Painting of Christ after Crucifixion Sparked Fyodor Dostoevsky's Imagination
• Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Image from the Concentration Camp at Mauthausen-Gusen in Austria, 1945

Recent Posts

• I Watched Nova’s Two Hour Evo Devo Documentary on PBS Tonight
• An MLA Report on Close Reading
• Quote of the Day (and Funny)
• NOVA’s Two Hour Special, “What Darwin Never Knew”, Airs Tonight at 8:00 PM
• Jerry Coyne’s “Why Evolution is True”: Intelligent Design in Checkmate?
• Counting Ants—or Ants Counting?
• Atheist Optimism vs. Atheist Pessimism: The Case of Thomas Hardy
• Philosopher Thomas Nagel’s New Collection of Essays on Religion, Politics, and Humanity is Excellent
• What Did Friedrich Nietzsche Take from Charles Darwin?
• Some Perpective on the New Year: A Bit of Pessimistic Buddha-Wisdom from Arthur Schopenhauer (and Monty Python)

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