A Little Gem…
I recently read Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic, written by Tamim Ansary
This book is a little gem, an elegant marriage of good writing and elaborate, illuminating research, constantly enlivened by Ansary’s sharp eye for observation. Some passages slant toward ambivalence, as though the author is doing his task with a combination [...]
Obama Transformed. A Question of Decency.
It seems everywhere you turn these days in the East Bay (for some reason especially out the front door of every Barnes & Noble and Borders) there is a similar ad—Obama’s Hitler Moustache is a fixture—with various critiques, some half-intelligent, about his policies. It is not the political banter that I [...]
A Few Words About The Banner
In a story by Borges, the Aleph is a small, iridescent sphere of unbearable brightness. It is only two or three centimeters in diameter, but its mirrory surface reflects the entire universe, echoing the multitudes that is our world, our shared fabric of citizenship.
