Denis & Margie Haack continue to write at Critique-Letters
A Book for Hearts & Minds (2017)
For the love of books Hearts & Minds Bookstore is in Dallastown, PA, so if you ever pass through that area be certain to…
Category: culture
Social media and spirituality
In a New York Times review of Jaron Lanier’s book, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, which I have not read, Franklin…
How to love winter storms
Sunday. We were snowed in this morning – a happy thing. Eight inches isn’t much but it was enough for us to celebrate with…
On trying to understand an Islamic quandary
A question often raised concerning ISIS is, “Why in the world would young people in the West would want to join them?” There are,…
Ideas worth pondering—Leon Wieseltier
In “Among the Disrupted,” the cover essay for the New York Times Book Review (January 18, 2015) Leon Wieseltier laments how devices are often…
Remembering Solzhenitsyn
It was his novels--One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) and Cancer Ward (1968)--that probed most deeply into my heart and imagination. Scenes and…