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.
That monstrous paradox
On Kierkegaard’s “Fear and Trembling.”
A sudden disintegration
A review of “The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America” (2017), by Frances Fitzgerald.
Weary of particulars
On Hegel, history, and art.
Emperor Trump?
On Trump and historical analogies.
Has God disappeared?
On Job and historical comparisons.
This paradise of books
An essay on books, reality, and life.
Unaffected by history?
A review of “Why Study the Past?” by Rowan Williams.