Year: 2022

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A Bit of Iconoclasm and Much Blogging

A Bit of Iconoclasm and Much Blogging

My friend and colleague Philip Jenkins on iconoclasm old and new: It was in this context that I had my personal encounters with an active and literal iconoclast, a brilliant English priest who had entirely imbibed the “Vatican Two” ethic at its most radical....

Discovering the Maize God

Discovering the Maize God

It me. No, wait, it a maize god. Some magnificent woodcuts by David Gentleman from a limited edition of Swiss Family Robinson. Sophie Yeo, of the fine environmentalist newsletter Inkcap Journal, has created a page called Six Thousand Years of Forests. It’s rather...

Getting Back to Business

Via my friend David Hooker: Isn’t it time for you to outhorse your email? Paul Klee’s puppets are delightful or creepy, and sometimes both. Some of my recent posts: A few thoughts on Justin E. H. Smith’s recent essay “Permanent Pandemic” Our desperate need to rethink...