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Detective stories (2): achieving justice
I argued in the first installment of this series that one reason we are drawn to detective stories is that we were made to…
Category: Law
Thinking about terrorism in Paris
Introduction This is a guest blog by an acquaintance of mine, Thomas K. Johnson, a philosopher and theologian. It’s a piece of rather…
Detective stories (3): a dependable hero
The appeal of detective stories includes our need for order when crime has introduced disorder (always a dangerous state), and our yearning for justice…
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…