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Tag Archives: Sam Harris
the mono men: back to me, myself and sigh
The Hawkins, Hitchens legacy… The atheist, too, would not dare deny himself a god and why not get personally involved in the god business; they have a god and it is themselves. You could say that the pagan, the idolator … Continue reading
lights under the stars
Demographic time bomb? An ideology of religion or religious ideology? There are no answers and the data is mixed, a muddy glass that is difficult to discern what is actually inside. A common view is that secular liberal democratic values … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Akihiko Hoshide, Aosdana Ireland, Christopher Hitchens, doug saunders globe and mail, Eli Wiesel, Golda Meir visits pope, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Madonna swastika Marie Le Pen, Maimonides, Mark Steyn, MK Eldad, Nicky Larkin, Paul Ehrlich, Sam Harris, Sunita Williams, Women in Green Jerusalem, Yaron London, Yehuda Brown, Yuri Malenchenko
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family planning
Population control. The Malthus nightmare. Limited procreation to maintain national characterstics. An affront to bourgeois values, liberal, humanistic axioms. As Allan Greenspan said, “a billion is not what it used to be.” But a billion moslems facing off against an … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Abou Zayd, Abu Zayd, Allan Greenspan, Christopher Hitchens, Gideon Levy, Gideon Levy Haaretz, Gilles Kepel, Ibn Battuta, Ibn Batuta, Igal Hecht, Kenan Malik, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Chagall, Mark Steyn, MK Israel Eichler, oriana fallaci, Paul Ehrlich, Sam Harris, Sam harris The End of faith, Siavosh, Sultan Salim II, Tzipi Livni, Yair Lapid, Yesh Atid
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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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we need the pillows : sleeping on “waning skepticism”
From the mouth of Harold Bloom. From his quill to god’s scribe. He represents the archetype of the Gnostic personality. If there is a gnostic personality disorder Bloom is a carrier, transmitter and is chronically infected. Or as he puts … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged artemisia Gentileschi, Caravaggio, Charles Lamb, cima da conegliano, dan geddes, david rosenberg, Dirck Bouts, Giotto di Bordone, Harold Bloom, Jacques Derrida, john collier, jonathan rosen, lawrence Alma-Tadema, pauline pistis, Sam Harris, Wallace Stevens, William Blake
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what if there was no back then
Not impressed. Deeply dissatisfied. But not surprised at this confrontation with the passive-aggressive; the yearning to be like him, then the abject tragedy arising when the initiative is undertaken. Harold Bloom was just the man to review Robert Crumb’s The … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged emmanuel levinas, Franz Kafka, Harold Bloom, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Buber, Martin Heidegger, Max Brod, pauline pistis, Randy Newman, Robert Crumb, Sam Harris, Theodor Adorno, Walt Whitman, Walter Benjamin, William Blake, William James
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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
Everybody's a Star Except The Madman from Laval
”The problem, he argues, is the nearly psychotic need to satisfy every human craving. It infects every aspect of American life, from the loss of cultural nuance to the growth of pornography to spending beyond one’s means.” ‘The danger of … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
Tagged Alfred Jarry, Billboard Liberation Front, Chris Hedges, Guy Debord, King Ubu, Mark Jenkins, Pataphysics, Ptaphysics, Sam Harris
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