by Charles Cameron | Oct 20, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — there’s a similar report from Oliver Cromwell’s New Model Army, fwiw ] . I have commented before on the use of miracle stories by Abdullah Azzam as quoted in Inspire magazine, and an African equivalent found in Gaidi Mtaani,...
by zen | Aug 4, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] The Orientalist by Tom Reiss Some biographies are as much about the era or the milieu as the man. The Orientalist is one of them. This is not to say that Tom Reiss has written a bad book. On the contrary, it is an...
by Charles Cameron | May 28, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — following a lead from Adam Elkus, a little more on the (Hindu) theological side of the Trinity test ] . ** WHen Oppenheimer saw the first nuclear fireball — apart from those supposedly recorded in legend, the sun in the sky, and...
by Charles Cameron | May 19, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a bookish Brit myself, I could easily see myself in either one of these pictures ] . One trouble with my DoubleQuotes format is that it conforms any images or texts to its own size: there are times when a larger font size in text —...
by zen | Feb 2, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Hitlerland by Andrew Nagorski Recent cyber problems here at ZP (as well as work commitments) have left me with an enormous backlog of book-related posts and reviews with which to wade through this month, including...
