Great interview with Vatican Astronomer, Brother Guy Consolmagno.

Oh, boy. Jeff Shallit is not happy with Joseph Epstein.

A truly marvelous actor, Frank Langella, was on Broadway 30 years ago with the revival of Dracula, featuring a superb set design by the late Edward Gorey–and I was lucky to see it. Now Langella is back playing Sir Thomas More in the revival of Man for All Seasons.

Early Earth as Hell. Or not. Geologists now almost universally agree that by 4.2 billion years ago, the Earth was a pretty placid place, with both land and oceans. Instead of hellishly hot, it may have frozen over. Because the young Sun put out 30 percent less energy than it does today, temperatures on Earth… Continue reading

Unfortunately, the celebrity philosopher craze did not end with the death of Jacques Derrida. The latest raves are for academic bullshit artist, Slavoj Zizek, from Slovenia, who is every bit of the bill. (I’m reading one of his collections now.) He knows how to be ‘outrageous’ for the sake of drawing attention, careful to mix… Continue reading