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  Rota est primum principium mali   I.   If, like me, you get much of your historical knowledge from the Carry On films, then you could be...

Lasciate ogni speranza per il 2024     I don't like - and have never liked - the Irish rock band U2.   But that isn't to say they ha...

What fresh hell is this that befalls us?     I.    A reader writes: "I enjoyed your recent short post on flowers and the question of ev...

Lily of the valley ( Convallaria majalis ) Photo by Ivar Leidus on Wikimedia Commons     A reader writes:   "I was shocked to discover ...

Artwork for The Atonement of Lesley Ann (2020)  reworked by Stephen Alexander (2021)   I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven...

Surprisingly, evil isn't an idea that features very often in Lawrence's poetry.  Indeed, prior to the handful of late vers...

According to the American writer Rebecca Solnit, it was no coincidence that the Christchurch mosque massacre took place on the s...

St. Anthony encountering a satyr  Fresco from the Skete of St. Demetrios,  the Holy Monastery of Vatopedi,  Mount Athos, Greece   ...

Stephen Alexander: Chaos Reigns (2018) I. A sparkling ice-cold morning in December: but even beneath cloudless blue skies, and j...

Jay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan  The case of Jay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan - two young American cyclists murdered in Tajikistan by...

Carolee Schneemann:  Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions (1963) Photo by Icelandic artist Erró, on 35mm black and white film Ne...

It's important to note that otherness is not merely an extreme form of difference . In fact, as Baudrillard makes clear, the lat...

Katja Hietala: founder of the Sisters of Kyllikki Photo: AFP/Sam Kingsley  For idealists, driven by a will to love and insistent u...

Auschwitz by Tana Schubert (2014) tana-jo.deviantart.com  This week marked the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz,...

 The Three Wise Monkeys ( Tōshō-gū shrine, Nikko, Japan) Having recently written a post in praise of Iwazaru - the wise monkey w...

Yale University Press, 2010 I don't like Terry Eagleton: not as a literary critic, not as a cultural theorist, and particularly n...