PhilocritesMichael Scott Doran carefully unpacks the symbolism of Palestine in Arab politics in Foreign Affairs, although you’ll have to pick up a copy to read his article (“Palestine, Iraq, and American Strategy,” January/February 2003). His main point — which Western pro-Palestian activists often seem to forget — is that “although Palestine is central to the […]
My review of The Place of Tolerance in Islam by Khaled Abou El Fadl and At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew’s Search for Hope with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land by Yossi Klein Halevi is in the January/February issue of UU World magazine. Highly recommended.
In an earlier post, I wrote: There is one solo in which the soprano sings that she wants to “engrave” the crucified Jesus in her heart; the German pun is amazing in itself… The aria isn’t always sung by a soprano, so if you have a recording, watch for the aria that begins, “Mache dich, […]
Bach’s St. Matthew Passion is perhaps the most powerful reflection on the crucifixion I know.
“The crisis at hand is not that Kim Jong Il has suddenly become more evil,” writes Fareed Zakaria in Newsweek. “It is that North Korea will, within months, become a plutonium factory.” As Josh Marshall points out, the Bush administration didn’t bother to come up with a policy for Jong Il, and now the U.S. […]
William Ellery Channing believed in the reliability of scripture, not its inerrancy.