Fitna (the Arabic word for ‘dissension’), a new film by Geert Wilders, a rightwing Dutch parliamentarian, should not be suppressed. This isn't because it has anything valuable or insightful to...
Writers, when they come to teach you the humanities, run away. The divorce of dignity and method afflicts and impairs every system of thought. Law, for example, ceases to serve the ends of providing...
The thought of it excited her. She discussed it with her tender peers. They were open with anticipation For confirmation of their fears, For reprieve from waiting, For a taste of the Garden, Which...
Chloe Bradshaw is 13. The previous installment of her pirate saga can be found here. The man who stood before me was supposed to be dead, and yet he wasn't. “How?” I said in a gasp. “I cannot...
This is a review of Who Speaks For Islam: What A Billion Muslims Really Think, by John Esposito and Dalia Mogahed. Gallup Poll Press. First Printing: 2007. This book attempts a systematic survey of...
Having an attachment to an inanimate object gives me pause, but I have such an attachment nonetheless. See, we've finally given the family transport vehicle, a 1994 black Suburban, otherwise known as...
"...letters mingle souls" - John Donne. Since I’m something of a handsome expert on everything, I’m familiar with therapeutic techniques. These are the tools that psychiatrists use to keep you...
after the quiz, looking in a mirror, fussing with her hair waiting at the door for his walk, the dog awaits his leash our old dog runs through fields in his dreams first deep snow-- one can hear the...
No. 42 was once an elegant house. Its crumbling façade exuded an air or mystery and romance. As I stood on its cracked marble doorstep I felt I had arrived home. For sixty years, No. 42 was the home...
fall fresh sun beams on ceramic features of carved irony warm the deadened impulse to breathe green grass grows on the other side of the world we desensitize the cells until growth is abstract...
