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
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Sometimes it seems as if we are living in times of cataclysm, beset by unpredictable events that shatter ordered lives. All that’s lacking are plagues of locusts, boils and frogs, and they may not be far behind. Hurricanes line up … Continue reading
If you’re reading this, I am visiting Rome and some of the islands of the eastern Mediterranean. In a way, it’s an ironic place to go to escape our own cut-rate Caesar’s attempts to hasten the empire’s decline and fall. … Continue reading