by Charles Cameron | Feb 4, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — there’s rather more going on in the burning of the Jordanian pilot than I can handle — here are some of today’s relevant highlights ] . I’ll start and close with JM Berger, who has two of the wisest contextual...
by Charles Cameron | Apr 13, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — from one Jesuit to another across centuries ] ** The Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote these lines in his incomparable poem, The Wreck of the Deutschland, in 1875 — an ode on what was for the poet a deeply moving current event,...
by Lynn C. Rees | Nov 18, 2013 | Monitor
[by Lynn Rees] One of the daily gripes the Norman Conquest (or perhaps Marcus Furius Camillius) inflicts on me is how Latinite words in English have higher status than English’s own native proto-Germanic words. This often leaves English with one...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 6, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — with regard to Mothana: the voice of sanity is not easily heard in the asylum ] . Here’s most everything you need to know about the complexities of the Middle East, spelled out in two simple war games: Sources: McCain plays poker...
by Charles Cameron | Apr 17, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — on Margaret Thatcher’s funeral, with a brief note on her theological stance ] . Many of my friends in the UK detested her, many of my friends here at Zenpundit think highly of her: my interest here is to note on the day of her...
