Is Walden Two dystopian? How did people react to Thomas More's Utopia? Is The Gulag Archipelago fiction? Is the book The Giver fiction or nonfiction? Where is Galt's Gulch in Atlas Shrugged? How is Harrison's world a dystopia in Harrison Bergeron?
Given what we know from the prologue, Pai is increasingly in a “shoot first, ask questions later” mode. Even Graf twice mentions her acting like her mother, the most ruthless person on earth. There might be a bit more with their team, then a chapter break. Still not really decided on...
Reflection on Holy Thursday What is so important about Holy Thursday night is the explicit connection between the institution of the Eucharist and a life of service, that is, the link between the sacrament and works of mercy, works of charity, which includes the commitment to social justice in...
Today, the hotel’s Authors’ Wing is the only part of the original hotel that’s left standing. According to the hotel’s website, you can stay in an Authors Suite: “These suites are tributes to some of the great literary figures that have stayed with us. All feature floor-to-ceilin...
②Yet they also tap into a global narrative.③On their phones they see daily evidence that the oppression they face at home is part of wider pattern of persecution of Muslims, from the gulag of XX to the hellscape of Gaza. ④When jihadists anywhere succeed, they feel pride—and a call ...
Clipping: Solzhenitsyn: Prophet to America
Not the case in the suburb where I live; San Antonio is supposed to trend blue – not as deep-dyed fanatically blue as Austin – but slightly blue and tempered with a strong military and veteran retiree presence, most of whom tend conservative.(And half Hispanic by census count, a good ...
when reading various news stories, especially those concerning incidents of murder, rape, mayhem and property crime – most of which can be laid at the door of a certain violently dysfunctional urban demographic – and then comparing the sympathetic manner in which that specific demographic is prese...
many other commodities, such as coal and iron ore, are down as well. Instead of oil prices staying up near the cost of extraction, they have fallen closer to the level consumers can afford. Needless to say, this is not good if the economy really needs the use of oil and other ...