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Tag Archives: John Kuhner
At the omphalos kosmou.
21-Jan-09Against Funding Sports Stadiums.
17-Dec-08politically Every now and again, you hear a politician or sports announcer who objects to the “corporate welfare” which is found throughout the United States, in the form of municipalities paying hundreds of millions of dollars to build sports arenas for the specific use of certain private, professional sports teams. Their opposition usually amounts to […]
Crystal Days.
15-Dec-08“The pleasure and pain endured to purify our mystic ways and magnify our crystal days.” The past few days have convinced me that I can withstand the difficulties of winter here, in part because of the extraordinary beauties I witness every day. Not a day goes by without my saying “Wow.” The Catskills have provided […]
Iterum in silvis.
05-Dec-08I returned to the cabin to find it 35 degrees inside (and this in mid-afternoon during the warm spell before the arctic front arrives). It had obviously been quite a bit colder most of the time I was gone. The cold damaged my Norfolk Island Pine, killed my basil plant (at left), and apparently […]
One of the better-known figures in Classics today is Father Reginald Foster. His story is interesting enough to have appeared in the media several times, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, the BBC, and most thoroughly in The American Scholar.[1] He has his own weekly spot on Vatican Radio, called “the Latin […]
Steinbeck in Salinas.
24-Sep-08Upon a wall in the National Steinbeck Center is a map of the Salinas valley, over which are inscribed the following words of the author: “… the valley I have known and never loved.” When presented thus with this map, the first thing that strikes you is the simple fact that Steinbeck did, in fact, […]
Reforming the NEA
09-Dec-08The National Endowment for the Arts (founded in 1965) has existed for many decades now, and has spent several billion dollars (its budget is consistently over $100 million annually), but if you walked through most American streets and neighborhoods, you would think that America produces no art at all. What you would see are […]