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Thoughts on Bob Dylan and the Border November 22, 2024
There are many categories of Bob Dylan songs: historical biographies and spiritual devotionals, oddball shaggy-dog stories, love songs and cranky breakup numbers. All of these are great, but my absolute favorite is the travelogue: where our weirdo ch...
Cormac McCarthy’s Secret Muse Breaks Her Silence November 21, 2024
I’m about to tell you the craziest love story in literary history. And before you ransack the canon for a glamorous rebuttal, I must warn you: Its preeminence is conclusive. Dante and Beatrice, Scott and Zelda, Véra and Vladimir. All famous cases of ...
On Esther Kinsky’s “Seeing Further” November 14, 2024
During her travels through the Great Alföld, the lowlands of southeastern Hungary, Esther Kinsky arrives in an orphan town near the Romanian border, where she becomes enamored with and bids to restore a ramshackle mozi (the Hungarian term for “cinema...
The Exploitation of Compassion November 08, 2024
For a book about the perils of empathy’s excesses, Allie Beth Stuckey’s newly released Toxic Empathy (2024) is rife with respect for empathy itself.Christian compassion, Stuckey acknowledges, is a positive force in our daily lives. When we see a frie...
Nonprofits Are Making Billions off the Border Crisis May 14, 2024
While the border crisis has become a major liability for President Biden, threatening his reelection chances, it’s become a huge boon to a group of nonprofits getting rich off government contracts.Although the federally funded Unaccompanied Children ...
