The Everlasting Mercy. John Masnfield. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015. While completing Master’s work in the mid 1990’s, I befriended an older Rastafarian from Jamaica. When…
Five years ago, an institution of learning in my neighborhood began to throw out perfectly fine books. Works from Shakespeare to Tolkien to Wyndham were tossed from…
I read an essay on Voegelinview questioning whether “conservatives” have the capacity to be “progressive.” [1] The essay made me wonder about the words we use in…
There are a number of reasons to read Richard Wright’s Black Boy.[1] One is that it is a fascinating, well written autobiography of an American life. Another…
Political Philosopher Eric Voegelin refers occasionally to the ancient Egyptian poem, “Dispute of a Man Who Contemplates Suicide With His Soul.” The “Dispute” is about a “man…
A Journal of the Plague Year. Daniel Defoe. New York: Penguin Classics, 2003. In light of the COVID 19 virus now spreading around the world, it…
Her is an intriguing movie on a number of levels. It certainly provokes conversation about topics such as technology’s growing intimacy with the human experience of reality.…
Many of us live in isolation from one another. We commute alone in our own cars, we entertain ourselves with television and computer screens, and shop for…
There are innumerable ways in which the modern soul seeks to transcend or escape the vicissitudes of reality as we now experience them. From new age prayer…
A bible verse from Proverbs 28:1 sets the stage for this movie, “The wicked man flees although no one pursues him . . .” The tale of…
From our moral failings to the vulnerability of the body, humankind’s fallen condition is brought out in brutal clarity in The Revenant. The horror of our mortal…
