Ray Olson on Film: The 1980s
You could say that the 1980s were just more of the 1970s, as far as the movies went. Hollywood got lamer, the indies kept American cinema alive and interesting, past masters were retiring or dying.
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The International Academy of Laputa
All of this is the background to the recent scandal over the death, apparently suicide, of Jason Ardray at Cambridge University.
America the Savage
Right or Left, Republican or Democrat, Americans are a very sick people, and the only proof you need are the innumerable posts rushing to blame the other side in a case where no one yet knows what motivated the murderer. Of the two groups
Darkness Visible, the Elizabethans, Part V: The School of Night
So far, we have learned that the Renaissance, while it certainly celebrated human reason, also witnessed the revival of neopagan, anti-Christian magic. This Hermetic movement, which takes its name from the writings written under the name Hermes Trismegistus, aimed at finding the secrets of making gold, creating living creatures, liberating men from the Christian religion and Christian morality,
Darkness Visible, The Elizabethans, IV
Unfortunately, neopaganism does not merely have a dark side. It is the dark side of the classical revival in general and of Hellenism in particular
Lower Than Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity
For all the social forces and political and cultural battles contributing to what Christianity has taught about sex and marriage, what seems undeniable is that the religion Christ founded lifted family life onto an entirely new plane, through the teaching that marriage is sacred and that the bond between husband and wife is indissoluble until death.
For all the social forces and political and cultural battles contributing to what Christianity has taught about sex and marriage, what seems undeniable is that the religion Christ founded lifted family life onto an entirely new plane, through the teaching that marriage is sacred and that the bond between husband and wife is indissoluble until death.
Naive Conservatives Put Their Trust in Princes, Again
I am a little puzzled by the Conservatives’ reaction to the Supreme Court’s ruling to uphold birthright citizenship.
Darkness Visible, The Elizabethans, Part III
One thread connecting Renaissance magic with our own New Age magic is the belief in secret brotherhoods and utopian societies ruled by adepts in Hermetic magic, such as the lost continent of Atlantis.
