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Remember Iraq?
Patrick Cockburn reports on the situation there in the wake of the recently concluded “status of forces” agreement that’s supposed to have US troops out by 2011.
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Rediscovering Correggio
The Post had an article this weekend on the nearly forgotten Renaissance master Correggio (a.k.a. Antonio Allegri) who at one time ranked up there with the likes of Michelangelo and Leonardo. What makes Correggio stand out is that his work is unconventional, even at times chaotic, by the standards of the day: Correggio’s paintings are…
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The greening of religion
At “The Immanent Frame,” Roger Gottlieb gives an overview of “religious environmentalism.” Not religious in the sense that conservatives sometimes say that environmentalism is a religion, but environmental concerns and movements emanating from traditional religions. One provocative claim Gottlieb makes is that, as religions “green,” they move to the left more generally: There is also…
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Huxley, the perennial philosophy, and the scandal of particularity
Aldous Huxley is best remembered for his chilling depiction of a totalitarian state in Brave New World. I’ve long thought that Huxley’s vision was in many ways more accurate than Orwell’s, at least as far as the West is concerned. We seem more likely to fall for a spiritually dead consumerist dystopia than a boot-on-the-neck…
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The oil crash: a very inconvenient truth
I just finished watching this extremely well-done documentary (if you subscribe to Netflix you can stream it from their site as I did). If anything, it was more terrifying than An Inconvenient Truth. I think that’s because the consequences–drastic economic dislocation, a series of resource wars, etc.–are more immediate and viscerally disturbing. (Obviously the two…
