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at the frontier edge

Strange bedfellows indeed. From the point of view of the Torah, political Zionism, statehood is anathema to fundamental religious thought. Which puts the adherents of Torah in the same soup tureen as super secular critics such as Christopher Hitchens, Harold … Continue reading

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say it ain’t so joe

Art as propaganda. The Romantic age had begun with the French revolution. Republican myth and Joseph Bara where the poltical mixes freely with the spiritual and the metaphors and allegories ricochet with the frequency of grape shot in the heat … Continue reading

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obey

Obey.  If you put them in a line, will they just keep going? Are they brought up that way? Obedience.  The question might not be centered around perverse pleasures and sadism, but of placing oneself in view of the all … Continue reading

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MUSIC & MADNESS: AN IMP OF A LIBRETTO

A cursed libretto is not your typical campfire ghost story.Its not a joking anecdote to be easily dismissed either. Its one helluva an imp who has displayed wildly inconsistent behavior over the years.  The specific association of music and madness … Continue reading

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Gnomes On A Hot Tin Drum

”I want to show that there is far-right thought in the heads of all of us,” he said, adding that gnomes were a particularly fitting method for conveying his message “in a lighter and unpatronising way, at the same time … Continue reading

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