Like Ike?
TAC reconsiders Eisenhower's Farewell Address, delivered fifty years ago next month. Kauffman and yours truly participate in a fine symposium reflecting on the dangers of the "military-industrial complex."
Two Literary Journeys
We have, until this day, indulged in our individualistic reveries, imagining that we are always free to “light out for the Territory” and leave the ills of communal life behind us.
Christian Burial
In the ancient world, Christianity put an end to cremation, and for a century it was kept in check by Christian tradition.
A Fertile Christmas Tradition
While Peters is peddling his technophiliac vision below, I commend this ancient Catalonian tradition for your creche (and your garden), "the Caganer."
The Fighting Bobs
But then Dylan is 69, and old enough to remember when the people of his place looked askance at empire. There were giants in the earth in those days.
Julian Assange & the Face of Placelessness
From the mountaintop, the little people of this world appear very small indeed.
Strauss and Schmitt Go to China
"Faced with the poverty, incompetence, and weak tyranny that real, existing socialism had delivered, many Poles I knew had begun a similar intellectual journey....
