These pieces could have been written yesterday, which speaks volumes about the eternal recurrence of the moronic inferno of the political.
Christopher-Hitchens
Short Fuse: Eternal Recurrence — Freud, Marx, Mao Zedong Thought
What I do suspect though, and find evidence for in BLOODLUST is that Freud is immune to any final dispatch or disproof, and will likely, through one portal or another, go on reinserting himself into our culture.
Short Fuse: Of Henry Kissinger, China, Stink Bugs, and the Games that Shape the Mind
“On China” boasts photos of Henry Kissinger’s numerous visits to China. In many you see him smiling hugely, brandishing chopsticks alongside the likes of Zhou Enlai. He’s enjoying making history — and the food.
Karen Armstrong, Biographer of the Bible
by Harvey Blume Ex-Catholic nun Karen Armstrong has, in her long, productive second career as scholar, written 21 books, including A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and engaging, balanced biographies of Buddha and Muhammed. I interviewed her about the Buddha biography when it came out in 2001 and enjoyed […]