Scholastic Achievement Test
Feb 04More juvenilia: Whether What Is Transcendent Is Dependent (unsuccessful parody of medieval philosophy, age 19). Adam Smith says somewhere that a sculpture of an animal is more impressive than a sculpture of a chair, because a sculpture of a chair isn’t sufficiently different from an actual chair; a similar criticism applies here.
Americhristian Exegesis
Nov 13Oh, and one more. This was published in The Daily Tar Heel (the student newspaper of UNC Chapel Hill) on 28 January 1994: To the Editor: Matt Osman’s Jan. 20 letter (“Columnist Obviously Doesn’t Understand Ways of Baptists”) offers two defenses of Christian intolerance of homosexuality. Mr. Osman’s first defense is the claim that “this [...]
God and Harry Browne
Nov 12I dug up two letters-to-the-editor from days past. The first, co-written with my friend and then-colleague Elizabeth Brake, was submitted to the Opelika-Auburn News on 9 June 2000; to the best of my recollection, it was published. Bruce Murray [Letters, 5/31/00] tells us that without divine revelation, we cannot know right from wrong. Yet he [...]
Entangling Alliances With Nun
Nov 08Around 1984, my college roommate Paul Fine (my collaborator on the Kant Song) and I wrote, inter alia, a song called “Sister Ann,” which I like best of all our joint compositions. Below are the lyrics; lines in bold are Paul’s and the rest are mine. All the music is Paul’s. Here’s a version with [...]
De Spectaculis
Sep 09I laughed when Nero’s minions sent fire-tortured souls to the sky. Without the walls of Pilate’s halls, I shouted “Crucify!” I roared my glee to the sullen sea where Abel’s blood was shed. My jeer was loud in the gory crowd that stoned St. Stephen dead. — Robert E. Howard Even if the death penalty [...]
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