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This is Oliver Stone’s spin on Nixon.

The movie does to Nixon what Amadeus did to (more…)

Naumburg is a town on the Saale River roughly in (more…)

A few people have accused me of being apathetic about current politcal affairs. (See the comments under “I’ll take mine rare”, particularly #’s 7 and 13 ). Allow me to indulge in a few words of defense against this charge. (more…)

The following article is from the current edition of Faith for all of Life, the bi-monthly publication of (more…)

It’s official. Hillary Clinton has announced that she will be running for the Office of President of the United States of America. Her handlers are already packaging her as Thatcher redivivus. (more…)

For those interested, I have put together a brief (more…)

Over the next several months (perhaps years, we’ll see) I plan (more…)

The orchestra opens with the strings furiously (more…)

The following is an letter I wrote to a friend who had questions about the reformed doctrine of “limited (more…)

The neo-cons, Bush administration, and Israelis are beating (more…)

Cindy Sheehan appeared on Sean Hannity’s show (more…)

The plot centers on a ring of foreign saboteurs operating in London. Their last attack, causing a (more…)

It is often thought, to borrow from Shaw, that Christianity and Judaism are two religions separated by a common (more…)

Somebody help me. Anymore, I’m never quite sure if I’m (more…)

The town of Köthen (sometimes spelled with a C) is southwest of Dessau and due north from Halle. It doesn’t even show up on the Google map until you zoom in pretty far; but as so often with German towns, it turns out to be quite substantial once you get there. (Pix is of the palace complex: it is quite modest, though there is a bit more to it than meets the eye here.)

The founder of German pietism, Johann (more…)

The former communist-block part of partitioned Germany, whose rulers called it the “German Democratic Republic,” can still be referred to by the name current both then and now, namely (more…)

Actually, the exact words were more like, he “extends” (more…)

The old man sitting next to me at the performance of (more…)