Sun in an Empty Room The Weakerthans (lyrics mainly from here; song available here) Now that the furniture’s returning to its goodwill home With dishes and last week’s papers, rumors and elections, crosswords, our unending war the black in our fingers smear their prints on every door pulled shut Now that the last month’s rent …
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About Ashok
I am a graduate student in political science at the University of Dallas who thinks the media is dumb for the most part, yet am immersed myself. I am looking to break my addiction, and this blog is part of the solution: Why not try to see what the past can tell us about the present, as opposed to seeing what the present has to say about the present only?
Currently residing in Cherry Hill, NJ. Facebook. Contact me.
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OK, I’m sold. What should I read here?
- Analysis of The Gettysburg Address: Is Democracy Feasible?
- Analysis of Lincoln’s “Second Inaugural:” Where do American virtues lie?
- Commentary on the Book of Jonah
- On “Batman Begins”
- From Love to God: On Hopkins’ “As Kingfishers Catch Fire”
- On Emily Dickinson’s “These are the days when birds come back…”
- The Coming Age: Macbeth and the Birth of the Modern World
- On Polemarchus: Commentary on the Republic of Plato, 331d-336a
- A Reading of Plato’s “Crito”
- Towards a Nietzschean Understanding of Politics: Notes on “The Case of Wagner”
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Recent Comments
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