Another verse video from the Farrellmedia vault. This time, we take Robert Browning up to the White Mountains… Shot in 1986, on Super 8mm. Narrated by the inimitable John Paul Wauck.
The decline of newspapers continues… The newspaper industry has for the most part been treating the new technology like an end in itself, thinking that the combination of a well-known brand and a slick Website would do the trick. Well, those Web sites have attracted online readers but they have not improved the medium-term prospects… Continue reading
The paperback version of Day Without Yesterday is now available in stores and online.
One atheist to another. Andrew Brown deconstructs the fundamental(ist) incoherence of Richard Dawkins: If we believe that human behaviour is a special case of animal behaviour, there is nothing that requires explanation when we find humans acting to the advantage of in-groups over out-groups. This is the kind of behaviour that will have benefited their… Continue reading
For reasons I can’t fathom, religion seems to be the one topic about which Christopher Hitchens is virtually always unreliable. Siris is on the case: I was amused, however, by Christopher Hitchins’s utter failure to say anything of signifcance about the matter. For instance: Most of all, throughout his address to the audience at Regensburg,… Continue reading