Onsi Kamel’s article (“Arabic, A Christian Language,” August/September) reminded me of an experience I had while I was a high school student at the American School of Kuwait. The Kuwait Ministry of Education required all non-Arabic-speaking students in the school to take Arabic as a foreign . . . . Continue Reading »
The American modernist poet E. E. Cummings ended up as a somewhat lonely, politically conservative Unitarian. It happens. He wrote some glittering verses glorying in the natural world and its colored wonders, and would jot down religious thoughts here and there. “May i be i is the only prayer,” . . . . Continue Reading »
Russians take positions to the extreme. As a result, Russian intellectual history shows us where ideas may lead—and in Russia’s case, really did. The English prided themselves on moderation and suspicion of radical abstractions, but Russians regarded anything short of ultimate positions as . . . . Continue Reading »
RJ Snell joins the podcast to discuss his new book Lost in the Chaos. Continue Reading »
The Wanting Seed is a guide for understanding our world today—especially the realities and implications of modern materialism, empiricism, urbanization, and utilitarianism. Continue Reading »
Irish culture no longer supports any intelligence of the transcendent. Continue Reading »
A. N. Wilson's biography of Charles Darwin freely criticizes the scientist and his theories—and committed evolutionists are enraged. Continue Reading »
We should imagine ourselves not as genetically enhanced superheroes or congealed stardust, but as the stuff from which God became incarnate among us. Continue Reading »
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing by lawrence m. krauss free press, 204 pages, $24.99 Acritic might reasonably question the arguments for a divine first cause of the cosmos. But to ask “What caused God?” misses the whole reason classical . . . . Continue Reading »
Americans have always thought of their country as other and better than anyplace else. The most obvious measure of comparative superiority was with Europe, the place where, through most of the nation’s history, most people came from and against which they assessed their achievements. The protean . . . . Continue Reading »
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