Death on April Fool’s Day
Some thoughts on “Confessions of an Opium-Eater,” death, and living history.
Looking out onto the world
If Father and Son (1907) is a “document,” a “record” of fact, and a “diagnosis” of a cultural moment—which is how the poet and critic Edmund Gosse (1849-1928) puts it at the outset of his auto/biography—that is not because of its pretensions to scientific objectivity, its implied invocation of a naturalist’s standard of normalcy, or …
Turning around
On history, human nature, and The Matrix.
A superior understanding of Canada
On putting Stephen Harper in context.
Predictably conventional
On consensus centrism and political commentary in Canada.
To end poverty
On the Gospels, Karl Marx, and some contemporary Marxists.
Isaiah’s vision
Thinking with the Bible en français. The Book of Isaiah, Chapter 1.
Instances of ideology
On ideology, Covid, and GraceLife Church.
What is this that you have done?
On Genesis, anthropology, and ideology.
The passion and the prose
Reading Charles Taylor and E. M. Forster together.