I’m not making it up, but I sound like I’m making it up which is what I want to achieve the lack of believability initially on the part of the reader wondering how this guy knows this much; does he make it up.

Institutions are working hard to move away from what Graham W. J. Beal, director of the Detroit Institute of Arts, calls “the priestly voice of absolute authority.”

Some of his work around the first years of the new millennium, namely Speech! Speech! (2000) and aspects of The Orchards of Syon (2002) are somewhat of a culture shock. They seem in places to identify the current belief that poetry is the most fashionable thing you can do.

We need to make a long-term commitment, not look for short-term successes that jeopardize longer-term gains.

Marilynne Robinson’s most impressive early achievement was to write a controversial work of non-fiction about nuclear pollution in Britain which had the singular distinction of upsetting both the British government and Greenpeace at the same time.

The longstanding tension between religion and science continues to erupt in high-profile public debates. Is reconciliation possible—or desirable?

By DAVID RIEFF [The National Interest] – A number of European and North American intellectuals—some self-identified neoconservatives, others “reformed” leftists who would of late call themselves antitotalitarians—have found in The Treason of the Intellectuals a template for explaining what they view as the incapacity of their contemporaries to stand up for the Enlightenment values currently […]