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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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Tagged Auschwitz, concentration camps, Gerald Stern, Germany, history, Holocaust, Judaism, literature, Nazi Germany, poems, poetry, Santi Tafarella
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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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Tagged America, culture, Google, John Ruskin, John the Baptist, Leon Wieseltier, Santi Tafarella, technology, The New Republic
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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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Tagged apologetics, Christianity, doubt, gospels, historicity of Jesus, history, Jesus, New Testament, Santi Tafarella
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Prometheus Unbound 