Ask Mr. Autodidact: Secular Catechism
My question is about your thoughts on what Tim Keller has described as the Catechism of Secularism. These beliefs have so completely dominated our culture that they are like the air we breathe.
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Andy Vaught Rediscovers America, Part One
Andy Vaught, TFF’s crack reporter, has been traveling across America in his quest to find out what makes Americans tick. In this first column of a series, Andy recounts his adventures in a Midwestern supermarket in the midst of a plaguge “of Biblical proportions.”
The Athenian Plague, Part II
It was the social and moral dimension of the pestilence that most attracted the analytical mind of Thucydides. Some perished through want of attention, while others, falling into despair, gave up the fight.
End of March Birthdays
Wilhelm Roentgen, Leonard Nimoy, Gorky, Cy Young, Vincent Van Gogh, Eric Clapton, Mehmed II the Conqueror, Herb Alpert, Edward Fitzgerald
The Athenian Plague witnessed by Thucydides, Part One
Thucydides account of the plague that struck Athens during the war with Sparta and the Peloponnesian League is among the most cogent and relevant descriptions of a pestilence.
Take Five: Muddling Through the Crisis
Sane Americans are getting on with their lives. This means living with the knowledge of death.
The Literature of Plagues, I: The Plagues of Egypt
This is a story that requires no retelling. Anyone who is not very familiar with the account in Exodus (basically chapters 5-12) will at least have seen the Cecil B. De Mille movie.
Corona, Corona 4
A close relative, in a comment “by the way,” hoped I was taking COVID seriously, since the problem was becoming acute in her part of California. It was a reasonable remark, and I responded: I take all potentially fatal diseases seriously, but the media are as usual lying to the public almost as badly as the Chinese government has been lying. Looking at at the Italian situation—far more drastic than here in the States—99% of the people dying have been old—average age 79 years nine months—and with underlying conditions, cardiac, respiratory, diabetic. Telling athletic young people to fear death is...
Take Five: Lessons Too Late in Learning
A podcast in which we begin to ask what lessons are to be learned from the Panic Virus
Some March Birthdays
Botticelli and Michelangelo, Amerigo Vespucci, Sam Houston and Bob Wills, Marcus Aurelius and Kenneth Grahame, Bud Abbott and Rob Roy, Gregory La Cava, Micky Dolenz and Yuri Gagarin….
