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Category Archives: In re
Book Review – The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ – By Philip Pullman – NYTimes.com
… those of us who can never forgive the emperor Constantine, not just for making Christianity a state dogma, but for making humanity hostage to the boring village quarrels and Bronze Age fables that were drawn from what remains the … Continue reading
Type Camp
Let’s face it, most of the general public does not really understand typography.
Tragic hero: Laurie Taylor interviews Terry Eagleton | New Humanist
It is because they never exposed themselves to this type of theological debate that they can now be indicted for having “bought their atheism on the cheap”. They are, in the equally scathing words of other Eagleton enthusiasts, nothing more … Continue reading
The Choice of Cities
Jane Jacobs, Redux
Posted in In re, Malthus, Observatorio, Polis, meditation
Tagged cities, opportunity, slums
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Ages of man
Preparing to move on our own dime for the first time in quite a while to a smaller house calls for culling. Everything we own is now on sale for $1/pound, which is what it will cost us to get … Continue reading
On writing
The reason was a fear of immodesty, born of the injunction that wasps shouldn’t “make a show” of themselves. It was all right for me to explain the decisions that other writers made, but not the ones I had made. … Continue reading