Author Archives: William Green

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck … Continue reading →

[preface to presentation by Bill Green] God’s Grandeur Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil … Continue reading →

From T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets: Little Gidding” “The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice … Continue reading →

Judith Shulevitz, science editor of The New Republic, May 13, 2013 What’s most momentous about the new biology of loneliness is that it offers concrete proof, obtained through the best empirical means, that the poets and bluesmen and movie directors … Continue reading →

Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there’s a tomorrow. Maybe for you there’s one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time [ahead]. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us … Continue reading →

Kurdish rebel fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have begun their withdrawal from southeastern Turkey as stipulated by a peace deal negotiated between Turkey and PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan in March. Over 40,000 people have died in the conflict, … Continue reading →

New post on NYU Development Research Institute – William Easterly – May 7, 2013 This is a letter just released from Eskinder Nega, a peaceful blogger and democracy activist serving an 18-year sentence in Kaliti jail in Addis Ababa, courtesy … Continue reading →

Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855): Rogue Philosopher by Jeffrey Frank, May 2, 2013 – The New York Times Tourists and residents stroll along Kobmagergade in Copenhagen. Kierkegaard was confirmed in a church just down the street. For years, visitors to the Copenhagen City Museum wandered … Continue reading →

– Russell Kirk, “The Dissolution of Liberalism,” Commonweal (January 7, 1955), 374. “All great systems, ethical or political, attain their ascendancy over the minds of men by virtue of their appeal to the imagination; and when they cease to touch the chords … Continue reading →

by Rev. John Thomas, the former General Minister and President of the United Church of Christ, now a professor and administrator at Chicago Theological Seminary May 2, 2013 Americans remain preoccupied with the confusing motivations of the two young men … Continue reading →