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Sunday, September 4, 2022

Evolution Has No Direction--Advanced Cultures Can Sink into Tribalism

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In popular culture evolution has a direction, but in reality evolution is simply adaptation to environment.    In a session of the weekly bo...
Monday, August 29, 2022

Spirits in Bondage by C.S. Lewis. Book 29 of 2022

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Spirits in Bondage is the work of a young man, a teenager.  In those years, between ages 15 and 18, C.S. Lewis lived through some of the hi...
Friday, August 26, 2022

Rabbi Ratifies Replacement-Theory Racism

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Since August 2017, I have been trying to make sense of a world in which torch-carrying Nazis marched on the campus of the University of Virg...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Today is Ukraine Independence Day, and Six Months Since the Start of the Russian Invasion

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  Today is the 31st anniversary of Ukraine's Independence, the day it broke free of the Soviet Union and became an independent nation.  ...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard Feynman Book 30 of 2022

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  At the beginning of his third lecture/chapter in the book QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter , Richard Feynman says: Most of the...

Reflections on the Psalms by C.S. Lewis. Book 28 of 2022

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  I re-read this book as a break from reading the intensely analytical translation of the Psalms by Robert Alter. All of Alter's work t...
Sunday, August 21, 2022

The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini and Hitler. Book 27 of 2022

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  Pope Pius XII has had an ambiguous history until the opening of the Vatican archives this book was based on. The Pope at War: The Secret H...