The Comics Section: Generalizations, Adult Babies, and Valuing the Finite
The latest from Jesus and Mo, Raging Pencils, and The Atheist Pig!
The Comics Section: Literary Interventions and Inappropriate Stools
The latest from Jesus and Mo and Raging Pencils!
Film Review: First Reformed
How many sins can a person commit in the name of a righteous cause before the sins outweigh the cause? This is the central moral question of Paul Schrader’s new film, First Reformed. In secular terms,... Read More
The Comics Section: Good Books & Laughing through the Tears
The latest from Jesus and Mo and Raging Pencils!
Golden’s Rule/Godwin’s Law
GOLDEN’S RULE Godwin’s Law* IT SEEMS THAT, Our thoughts aren’t quite the same, my brother. OUR SOURCES ARE DIFFERENT SO You may be misinformed, my friend. PERHAPS Your passion is admirable, comrade.... Read More
A Pervasive Impression of Our Depravity: William T. Vollman’s Carbon Ideologies
Those looking for hope (or even energizing desperation) about our prospects for dealing with global warming will want to avoid William T. Vollmann’s new two-part Carbon Ideologies series: No Immediate Danger: Volume One (624 pages;... Read More
Leonardo da Vinci
BY WALTER ISAACSON SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2017 624 PP.; $35.00 “Leonardo was a genius,” Walter Isaacson says near the end of Leonardo da Vinci. “Yet it is also true that he was a mere mortal.”... Read More