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Category Archive: Other Stuff
To thousands of cricket lovers around the world, Peter Roebuck was known and admired as one of the […]
Vastly superior to Cormac McCarthy’s over-hyped and over-rated The Road, Lost Everything is a strange, fey, elegiac tale […]
P J O’Rourke is a noted satirist, and self-described social libertarian and constitutional conservative. O’Rourke believes in individual […]
Toru Watanabe and his friend Kizuki share their childhood and teenage years together until, inexplicably, at the age […]
Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar is something of a cultural and nationalistic hero in Spain, portrayed as a noble, […]
It’s amazing where you can find Christ. In many respects, Clint Eastwood’s film Gran Torino is a bleak […]
When Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchins, and other polemicists from the “new atheism” movement launched their full-scale assault on […]
In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist assault on the United States, philosophy academic Kerry Walters and a […]
In 1984, Andrew Mawson, a minister in the United Reformed Church in the UK, arrived in the parish […]