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Earth Day: the Old Man's Tree and the Boy's Tree
Learning from trees.
An atheist libertarian's perspective on Pope Benedict
Author Vargas Llosa pays tribute to Pope Benedict and credits the Catholic Church with preserving Classical and Renaissance cultural traditions.
The Core Curriculum and the fall of Western civilization
Read oldest copy of St Paul's Epistles
Download a free app of the world's oldest copy of the Epistles of Paul of Tarsus.
Les Miserables: a soul-stirring film experience
Spiritual regeneration of America
Renowned author lectures in Las Vegas on U.S. corporate complicity in Holocaust
Edwin Black chronicles IBM deals with Nazi Germany
The Dionysian rise of a new cultural paradigm
The Gospel of Anti-Christ: according to Vladimir Solovyov
"Little children, keep yourselves from idols", wrote John the Evangelist. Important words for believers to hear upon confronting Power.
Notes from the Post-Modern underground: intellectuals and moral depravity
The Gnostic Gospels for idiots
The Jewish Question revisited
iSelf: Meditations on history and literature
The Idol, the Icon, and the Bus
Hmm, could it be Satan?
First Homer encyclopedia brings epic poetry and ancient Greece to life
Tel Aviv University researcher sheds light on Homer's reception in the Western, Jewish and Arabic worlds.
The Hunger Games: Huntress Diana, redux
Grotesque indulgence in adolescent paranoia.
'The Hunger Games' reviewed: meh
'The Hunger Games' glorifies injury, death, and gore for the purposes of entertainment. Skip it.
'The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore' on its way to glory at the Academy Awards
A wonderful short film, 'Morris Lessmore' promises to be a favourite at the Academy Awards.
The disembodied legacy of Christopher Hitchens
Not to be anywhere, no touch or taste or smell—this is to be disembodied, to be something other than human. The very thought of it will keep you awake, aware of this life, this body, this time, and this place.
Ida Elisabeth: book review
Author Sigrid Undset offers in her novel, Ida Elisabeth, a rendering of marriage and intimacy with startling subtlety.
Britain to celebrate life of Charles Dickens at Westminister Abbey
The English-speaking world celebrates the 200th birthday of Dickens with readings, museum exhibits, and events on several continents.
Herman Cain's God, Mormonism, and Christmas
Wuthering Heights: movie review
A classic novel is given a docu-drama approach on film.
Literature And Empire: Scholar Susan Layton Discusses Russia's 'Literary Caucasus'
Where did Russia's stereotypes of the Caucasus come from? Susan Layton's book "Russian Literature and Empire: Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy" provides part of the answer.
'The Homeless Bishop': a novel release by Orbis Books

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