by zen | Aug 16, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] Blood Meridian: or The Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy Cormac McCarthy and Blood Meridian first came to my attention back in 2000 when noted literary critic, Yale professor Harold Bloom was interviewed on...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 15, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a highly interesting discussion, discussed ] . How to Write and Fight World War III: This is the video of a terrific discussion of the future of warfare — peacemaking, too, if you see them as two sides of a coin — from the Art...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 6, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the geometry of two miracle stories from Abdullah Azzam ] . These two tales are taken from Abdullah Azzam, Signs of ar-Rahman in the Jihad of Afghan. ** Binary oppositions seem to be basic to the human thought process, and this simple,...
by Charles Cameron | Jan 17, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — not to mention crushing Khomeini, lubing your M16, and that Afghan powerpoint ] . Andrei Rublev, The Archangel Michael ** In my previous post, Of morale, angels and Spartans, I raised the question of how our increasingly visual and...
by Charles Cameron | Nov 13, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — skip straight to the last three sections if you want the meat without the fruit & nuts ] . I didn’t know that football hooligans were against salafists when I put together this DoubleQuote in a free moment yesterday — I...