Tag Archives: Joseph Brean National Post

hunting for heroes

Our present period,at least in the Western world, is in difficulties about its heroes. Heroism, understood as courage in action, we can still recognize and applaud; but the individual hero, defined as the personification of what the age tends to … Continue reading

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FREE SPEECH MASH-UP

What are the limits of free expression. At a recent conference Salman Rushdie and Nobel Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel agreed that laws against blasphemy are problematic, thorny and surprisingly, subject to some form of revisionism. In this information age, the … Continue reading

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TRIVIAL PURSUITS & BOYS IN STRIPED SUITS

”However here we also get the first doubtful use of the Holocaust in Beatrice and Virgil. We are told that fewer than two per cent of Holocaust survivors ever tell of their ordeal. And so:’For his part, Henry now joined … Continue reading

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