Archive for October, 2004
Fear and Loathing
Last night I watched the first of Adam Curtis’s trilogy of documentaries, The Power of Nightmares. The film focused on two key thinkers – Egyptian Sayyid Qutb and American Leo Strauss – who both were repulsed by what they saw as the moral degradation of Truman’s America. Both argued that the answer lay in curbing [...]
Posted: October 21st, 2004 under World.
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And now let’s move…
It’s Thursday, so it must be time for another book by Nick…And Now Let’s Move Into a Time of Nonsense has just come out. (You can buy a freshly minted copy at Amazon). Rather amazingly I haven’t been beaten up by any worship song writers yet. In fact, the book boasts an approving comment by [...]
Posted: October 14th, 2004 under Books.
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