Wessel Stoker, “The Rothko Chapel Painting and the ‘Urgency of the Transcendent Experience,’” Intl. Journal for Philosophy of Religion 64 (2008):89-102. Free PDF at Springer website.
For the curious, a screenshot of Google Chrome, which I use at work. Yes, it is much faster than the browser you’re using.
One of my brother’s life-long dreams is to drive to Cuba on a motorcycle. A friend of mine once drove west on a motorcycle from South Korea all the way to Africa.
As for me, my new dream is to figure out how to build a homespun chainsaw-engine scooter like this one, spotted doing about 40mph on the highway on the way home from work, and drive it Lake Michigan.
Solzhenitsyn's Legacy
Of what will Solzhenitsyn’s legacy primarily consist? Commentators are already attempting to tip the balance in favor of either his early exposure of the Soviet gulag or his later criticisms of Western “liberalism” and freedom. Perhaps it was both. In any case, let us consider his own words.
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The Many Names of "Alan" Jacobs...
- “‘Come On, You Call This A Manifesto?’ screams a headline in the May 9th Wall Street Journal over a column by Wheaton College’s Gary Jacobs” (Martin Marty, “Manifesto,” Sightings, May 12, 2008).
- “The Wall Street Journal on May 9 published an editorial by Wheaton College Professor Alan Jacobs (whom I misidentified as Peter Jacobs in a column May 12) that chided the authors of the Manifesto for not being aggressive enough” (Martin Marty, Washington Post’s “On Faith,” May 14, 2008).
- “Last Monday’s column, ‘Manifesto,’ erroneously named Gary Jacobs as the author of a Wall Street Journal column … . The author is Alan Jacobs, of Wheaton College” (Ed.’s note, Sightings, May 15, 2008).
