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 | Apr 19, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — Thomas Hegghammer has an important new piece out, and today’s anniversaries offer an insight into why it’s important ] . upper panel: the end of the siege of Mt Carmel, Waco, TX, 19 April 1993 lower panel: aftermath of the...
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 | Jan 11, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the role of iconography vs idolatry within Islam and Christianity ] . Karim Sadjadpour of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace tweeted an image of Muhammad today: Images of the prophet Mohammed weren't always taboo. This 16th...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 21, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — in response to a comment by Zen on a previous post — swastikas, anarchist flags, Gadsden flags, black banners, and their various variants ] . Yesterday, in response to my piece on Black Banners in the Washington Post Zen commented:...
