I have certainly covered how I feel about George W. Bush enough lately so I won’t go into that again, but this Instapundit post on Bush and the bioethic council provoked some thoughts. Glenn quotes another blogger who accuses Bush of pandering left and right and then offers this: A President is bound to alienate [...]
In some ways a fictional memoir but in others a flashback mystery or a reminiscence on youth and memory; at times a gripping novel of suspense while at others a though provoking rumination on the unique perspective of youth; in reality Spies is all of these things and that makes for a great read.
I am beginning to feel the pinch of my wearing off of new books. I am always a sucker for well packaged works with an interesting theme tying a series together. The Oxford Press series on the Seven Deadly Sins is one such temptation (if you will forgive my pun). This Nicholas Blincoe review of [...]
I don’t mean to turn this into “All Passion All the Time” but it is a hot topic right now and I am engaged with it. In the post below I discuss accusations of anti-Semitism and the film. In his op-ed today William Safire takes up the issue as well: Not Peace, but a Sword. [...]
I am hardly qualified for a technical and historical debate on anti-Semitism. I have some knowledge of the subject through my history background and interest in current events, etc. But I am by no means an expert. Nevertheless I wanted to note of few things related to the issue of anti-Semitism and the movie The [...]
I learned ways of looking at character from him. The modern subconscious way. He gave me as much of the modern way as I could take. I couldn’t read Freud or Jung myself; it had to be filtered to me. – E.M. Forester, on Marcel Proust (Found in Fighting Words: Writers Lambast Other Writers)