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Tag Archives: Richard Dawkins
agonizing doubts: the nature of things
Can reason and logic solve all of people’s problems? The great Roman poet Lucretius seems to take the affirmative side in the individual’s unending debate on this question- but his verses are charged with agonizing doubts. The material of the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Atheism, Christopher Hitchens, Cicero, Epicurus, Harold Bloom, Lucretius, Lucretius The Nature of Things, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nepos, Richard Dawkins, Sandro Botticelli, Stephen Greenblatt
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sunset of a new dawn
The Enlightenment. Its the basis of our secular society and ints values underpin much of the consumer economy. Its values have dominated the public sphere since the dawn of the industrial age. This liberal, rational, humanitarian way of thought has … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Christopher Hitchens, Edward Gibbon, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hannah Arendt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Heidegger, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Peter Howson, Richard Dawkins, Slavoj Zizek, Voltaire
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judging a cover by its book
Biblical prophecy is always a fascinating subject, dealing as it does with the hope of golden age, a repairing of the world, a making whole, a redemption mixed with the equal propensity for apocalyptic destruction. It predates the secular utopianism … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Christopher Hitchens, Dante Republic, Francis Bacon, Franz Kafka, Igal Hecht, Jonathan Swift, Kosher Jesus, Leonard Cohen, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Milan Kundera, Nicolas Poussin, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe, Richard Dawkins, Schmuley Boteach, Sir Thomas More, Walter Benjamin
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stand-off
It can be said that evolutionary theory is the centerpiece of modern Western thought, in fact of Western secular society, from economics, consumerism, the military, agriculture to parenting and politics. The appeal of linear progression, the basis for invidious comparison … Continue reading
intense: back to moses and magic
The intensity of the debate will not be defused. Its an old argument. Revelation versus reason. Certainly, Darwin played an accelerating role, but the old scuffle could go back all the way to Moses and the Pharaohs of Egypt invoking … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Bill Maher, British National Party, Christopher Hitchens, Hassan Bek, hatam abdel khader, Jack Straw, Le Pen Front Nationale, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, mahmoud abbas, Mark Steyn, Martin Amis, Moses in Egypt, Moses the exodus, Richard Dawkins, Tony Blair
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this poor man cries out but who is listening
The God game. The politics of God. Santorum hs the potential to be a dangerous demagogue, but the left critique with its mixing of theology, religion and class economics is almost as nausea inducing by positioning the voice of god … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged abel meeropol, Billie Holiday, Billie Holiday Strange Fruit, Chris Hedges, Christopher Hitchens, cornel west, Erich Fromm, James Cone, james h. cone, Larry Rivers, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Martin Buber, Paul Tillich, Richard Dawkins, Rick Salutin, rick santorum, robert wyatt, robert wyatt strange fruit, Sam Harris
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they won’t let him rest in peace
Not what you call turning the other cheek or noblesse oblige. Call it payback. A little spittle running down the lip after missing the non-existent urn. Or maybe the winds of bad faith blowing back in the face. I hope … Continue reading
letting the little guy throw a punch
There is no definitive summation possible. Whether a man conflicted by what he may have perceived himself to becoming, or merely conflicted by pushing the boundary of the public intellectual into new realms, or simply enamored by the literary aesthetic … Continue reading
peter pumpkinhead
…”Let him jump so that he will fill the sacks along his back bone with air and then he can not go deep to die”….”I want to see him and to touch him and to tell him he is my … Continue reading
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