Daily Archives: June 25, 2009

Eschatology for Beginners

Something’s happening! Whether it’s a dawning Messianic era, the UFO rapture, a technological Singularity, or some soon coming secular utopia (Marxist, neoconservative, or otherwise), the problem of suffering in the world and our intellectual confusions are about to be resolved in the arrival of … Continue reading

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Mental Health Break

The opening of Jackie Brown:

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Quote of the Day

Virginia Woolf (from A Room of One’s Own ): “All women together, ought to let flowers fall upon the grave of Aphra Behn . . . for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.” Here … Continue reading

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Is Faith the Last Refuge of a Routed Argument, and Would the Reign of Secular Reason Be Like a Bucolic Summer Breeze?

If patriotism is, as Samuel Johnson put it, the last refuge of the scoundrel, is faith the last refuge of a “routed argument”? That was 17th century female British writer, and now feminist icon, Aphra Behn’s, cutting observation in some startling lines from her poem, “To … Continue reading

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