Politically, this seems like deja vu all over again. Bill Maher says Democrats have to look strong or Trump will say they’re weak. Pollsters say the president’s numbers show he’s too unpopular to win re-election unless Democrats do something really … Continue reading
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In “Dover Beach,” the eminent Victorian, Matthew Arnold, expressed the belief that the tide of Faith was going out. Today, it sometimes seems the tide of enlightenment rationalism has gone down the drain, and that we are sinking into primitive … Continue reading
Americans when they first visit Europe are immediately struck by the fact that our oldest cities, buildings, works of art, traditions and institutions are teen-agers alongside their venerable counterparts abroad. And especially by what Lawrence Durrell called Caesar’s vast ghost. … Continue reading