The Times today includes an article that might be overlooked: “Next on the Agenda for Washington: Fight Over Debt.” It notes that in the next couple of months, the United States will reach the congressionally-imposed limit on borrowing, capped at the staggering debt ceiling of $14.25 trillion (for the sake of argument, pretend it’s possible…
I have watched this clip way too many times. Be sure to hang in there until Taylor seamlessly weaves “Sweet Baby James” into the medley. Good stuff.
I’ve decided to upload some of the archive of book reviews I’ve done over the years, creating a collection on Scribd. I’ll hope to keep updating this as I have opportunity. Review of Peperzak, “The Quest for Meaning: Friends of Wisdom from Plato to Levinas”
David Orr’s essay on the instrumentalization of poetry in Oprah’s magazine is worth a read for all kinds of reasons, but especially for the concluding paragraph where he rightly laments: I wish, though, that they had found space for someone — not a critic, necessarily, just someone willing to be honest — to talk about…
If I could create a DVD to accompany Desiring the Kingdom, this would be one of the resources to accompany chapter 3: HT: Mark Roeda
Kierkegaard’s (or rather, Anti-Climacus’) Practice in Christianity—one of the little brothers in a corpus that includes Fear & Trembling, Sickness Unto Death, and Concluding Unscientific Postscript–is sort of an amalgam of Kierkegaardian themes. (And it still includes all those aspects of Kierkegaard that frustrate me to no end; I have a passionate love/hate relationship with…