More of my correspondence with David Davalos, author of the play Wittenberg, shared with his permission. My answer to his answer: Fair enough, David. I get what you are trying to do. It just seems that a Faustus without the devil is hardly a Faustus–like
Boston University professor Andrew J. Bacevich argues in the Washington Post that we should abandon the hot war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Instead, we should move to a cold war against our adversaries, beating them in the same we beat the Soviets, through an ideological
In our discussion of Bob Dylan’s upcoming Christmas album a few days ago, some of you maintained that the one true Bob does not have a good voice, that while he is a fine songwriter, the man just can’t sing. I know what you mean,
Picking up on my exchange with David Davalos, author of Wittenberg–the play about Luther, Hamlet, and Faustus, this is his answer to what I posted yesterday: Gene, Again, thank you so much for your thoughts and encouragement. Emerson to Whitman? Wow. You may of course
Last week we blogged about Dan Brown’s new book, which, despite its awful writing and worse themes, is destined to sell untold millions of copies. We contrasted that with the new novel by Lars Walker, who hangs out at this blog, which is very well
Here is an example of what we were discussing earlier, whether an artist is a superior being not subject to ordinary morality or even, in some minds, the laws of society. Roman Polanski, the distinguished film director ran away from American justice after being charged
The Jerusalem Post reports a startling archeological discovery. Coins with Joseph’s name found in Egypt : Archeologists have discovered ancient Egyptian coins bearing the name and image of the biblical Joseph, Cairo’s Al Ahram newspaper recently reported. Excerpts provided by MEMRI show that the coins
Continuing the conversation with David Davalos, the author of Wittenberg, this is what I wrote back after the message I posted last time: David, How good of you to write! I had wanted to come back to Maryland on the day you were speaking and
Susan Atkins, the follower of Charles Manson and the murderer of the pregnant Sharon Tate, is dead. The news account of her death tells quite a story, going from unimaginable depravity to the Cross: One night in August 1969, Manson dispatched Atkins and others to
You may recall that I recently blogged about a play I recently attended entitled Wittenberg, which is about three denizens of that university interacting with each other: Faustus, Hamlet, and Luther. Click here for my review, which you may want to review for what follows.
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