North Korea is the modern ‘hermit-kingdom,’ the land that seeks pariahood as a matter of principle. Since its unsuccessful post World War II invasion of the South, it has demonstrated an ideological rigidity that is unrivaled in modern times, and which resembles rigor mortis. Amidst the collapse of its former enablers, and the Chinese renunciation [...]
Reviews
That Hideous Strength, by CS Lewis, Scribner Classics, 1996 Page 17. … thought gave him the same curious sensation which a man has when he discovers that his father once very nearly married a different woman. Page 18. In the wall there was a door. It lead you into a covered gallery pierced with narrow [...]
Perelandra, by C.S. Lewis, Scribner Classics, 1972. Page 38. The orb itself remained invisible, but on the rim of the sea rested an arc of green so voluminous that he could not look at it, and beyond that, spreading almost to the zenith, a great fan of colour like a peacock’s tail. . . [...]
Book Review: The Delinquent Teenager, reviewed in London Book Review (10/28/2011) Review by Pan Pantziarka, 2011 It is impossible not to feel angry when reading this book. It is not just the sheer scale of bad practice, the bad faith and the outright lies. It’s the painful lack of objectivity from the worlds media. Much [...]
Postmodern Times: A Christian Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture, by Gene Edward Veith, Crossway Books: Wheaton, Il., 1994 p. 19. Today as we enter the twenty-first century, a new worldview is emerging. The “modern,” strange as it is to say, has become old-fashioned. The twentieth century, for all of its achievements and catastrophes, is [...]
Title The Dancing Wu Li Masters Author Gary Zukav Publisher Perennial, 2001 Page xxviii. Another reason is that the Dancing Wu Li Masters contains within it the seed of the thought that consciousness lies at the heart of all that we can experience, all that we can conceive, and all that we are. It also [...]
Title The Quark and the Jaguar Author Murray Gell-Mann Publisher WH Freeman and Company, New York, 1994 Page 6. Give me a good night’s sleep, freedom from distractions, and time unburdened by worries and obligations, and I can work. . . . … quantum mechanics permits, even in principle, only the calculation of probabilities. …. [...]
Title No One Left to Lie to Author Christopher Hitchens Publisher Verso, 1999 Page 11. The Cheyenne-Arapaho peoples of Oklahoma have been attempting for years to regain land that was illegally seized from them by the federal government in 1869. Page 14. … Jesse Jackson and other members of the stage-Army of liberalism… Page 24. [...]
Title Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track, The Letters of Richard Feynman Author Richard Feynman (editor: Michelle Feynman) Publisher Basic Books, 2005 Page 106. I have found that I have little interest in the activities of the Academy, so would you please accept my resignation as a member. Page 232. Too much training, saying [...]
Title Cargo, Cult and Culture Critique Author Edited by Holger Jebens Published University of Hawaii press, 2004 Page 15. Cargo Cult at the Third Millennium, by Lamont Lindstrom Cargo cults blossomed in the postwar 1940s and 1950s throughout the Melanesian archipelagoes of the southwest Pacific. People to traditional or innovative religious ritual to obtain "cargo." [...]
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