Are we better off with the internet?
There was this funny YouTube video last week. Somebody posted it on Facebook. Or tweeted it. Or something like that. It was very clever and witty and it got all […]
Category Archives: On Anything and Everything
Time condensed, stretched, revisited
Some time ago I’ve had a near-death experience. Almost. Kind of. What happened is that I paid a visit to Vancouver, a city Sarah and I have lived in for […]
Does Art Speak?
Is a postscript to Lolita, a defensive Vladimir Nabokov responds to criticisms leveled at his novel about a man who seduces a 12-year-old girl. He distinguishes his novel from pornographic literature. He […]
What does the “selfie” say?
It’s official. “Selfie” entered the cultural mainstream recently when Oxford Dictionaries declared it the word of the year for 2013, thus sanctioning its continued use and popularity. According to Oxford […]
What’s in a Name?
When it comes to judging books by covers, what would happen were we to be judged by the names of fragrances we wear? I can scarcely think of another format […]
Nanna’s Rainbows in the Tears
There is no guarantee how suffering will shape a soul. As C.S. Lewis, the imaginative author of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, once noted, I am not convinced […]
State of Nature
I have observed, over the past few months, that many major blogs and news sources have taken to disabling or at least heavily moderating the comments on their websites. Here […]
Last Words of Great Men
A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath.
A Road Trip with Peter Berger
Last Sunday, I spent 2 hours in a car with one of the most renowned sociologists of the 20th century. Peter L. Berger, born in Austria in 1929, is the […]
Postmodernism is Dead
British writer Edward Docx, writing for the UK-based Prospect Magazine, has announced to the world, “Postmodernism is dead.” How does he know? He points to some time ago, when the Victoria and […]
Wondering Fair 