The Visionary Music of Sir Arnold Trevor Bax
The name of Sir Arnold Trevor Bax (1883 – 1953) hardly qualifies as a household reference even among people with serious musical interests. Yet Bax claimed a…
Murder Most Foul and America’s Soul (Part III)
In previous essays we have looked at Bob Dylan’s place within the great musical and literary canons of Judeo-Christian civilization. In this third piece, we will now…
Murder Most Foul and America’s Soul (Part II)
In our previous essay, we looked at Bob Dylan with an emphasis on his qualities as a timeless moral leader and musician. Now, we shall consider his…
Bob Dylan: Murder Most Foul and America’s Soul (Part I)
Hope Amidst Crisis Bob Dylan has only gone and released a new song, his first original music in eight years, right in the heart of the crisis…
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Brat 2: “Are y’all gangsters?” “No, we are Russians.”
Aleksei Balabanov’s sequel to Brat, Brat 2, is at once quite a bit more and quite a bit less than the movie which kicked it off. The…
Dersu Uzala – Man is Small Before the Face of Nature
I am unfortunately not as well-versed in the filmography of Kurosawa Akira 黑澤明 as I ought to be. The ones which I recall seeing, and all of…
Love and Sacrificial Salvation: The Hidden Theology of Science Fiction Filmography
The Enlightenment mythology usually goes something like this: Humans had been wallowing in darkness and superstition for a long time, then, sometime in the seventeenth century, a…
Nihilism in the Movies
Sometimes learning involves the introduction of new facts. At other times, it is a matter of noticing what is already in front of your nose; a change…
Quantum Mechanics and Religion Revisited
At a 1932 conference on quantum mechanics it was suggested that physicists should not worry about what quantum mechanics indicates about the nature of reality and they…
Speech and Knowledge in Plato’s Hippias Major
Near the beginning of Greater Hippias, Socrates introduces an alter-Socrates (his intellectual conscience, we might say) who poses this question: “Socrates, how do you know what sorts…
Libraries – The Last Secular Dwellings of Silence
When I was a kid, I can remember my dad taking me to the local library. There he assisted me with one of the most rueful grade…
Eminence of Governing
The collective memory and the enduring vision of a great leader is a subject not solely reserved for the history books, for college lectures, nor for commemorative…
The Conservative in Crisis: Notes on De Officiis
I. Since August 1914 the world has seen much of war and revolution. The course of events, the moral disorganization of individuals, the destruction of anticipation, and…