Daily Archives: August 27, 2008

Barracks in a Subcamp of Auschwitz and Some Lines from Gerald Stern’s Poem, “Soap”

My counterpart was born in 1925 in a city in Poland—I don’t like to see him born in a little village fifty miles from Kiev and have to fight so wildly just for access to books, I don’t want to … Continue reading

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Crying (Softly) in the Wilderness?: Leon Wieseltier (Mildly) Channels John Ruskin

In the “Washington Diarist” column of the August 27 New Republic, Leon Wieseltier expresses angst at the direction of contemporary American culture, and is unimpressed by all of our contemporary whiz-bang technological advancement, asserting that things of real value have been dying—and are … Continue reading

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Miracles and Reasonable Doubt: Philosopher Stephen Law Weighs in on the Historicity of Jesus

Philosopher Stephen Law recently offered a novel reason for doubting the historicity of Jesus: If two friends tell me that a man called Bert visited them at home last night, I have every reason to believe them. That’s evidence enough. … Continue reading

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