Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Powerby Alexandra Robbins Robbins’s book isn’t terrible. She reveals some of the banal truth behind the seemingly sinister facade of the Yale “tombs” in her sometimes rambling work. But her own sips of secret society Kool-Aid are obvious; her stated …
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God’s Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth’s Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plotby Alice Hogge Alice Hogge’s book reads like a hagiography of Henry Garnet — nevermind that he was never beatified, let alone sanctified. The subtitle both reveals and elides the actual subject(s) of the book. Though indeed _God’s Secret Agents_ is the …
We take as today’s text some sentences from the fourth paragraph from the end of Secrets of the Tomb, a fairly meaningless work (you can read my micro-review here), but in the closing lines the author, Alexandra Robbins makes some statements that illustrate the illogic of most conspiracy theorizing, both pro and contra. “However sinister …
From spawn to that moment of clarity,The salmon lives in, through, and with the water.To swim thoughtless to the open seaAnd hunt and hide in the river’s daughter,And to wend its way back again,Borne by ancient yearning,Is fused within eye, tail, scale, and fin —To evermore be returning.Shining in the dappled sunOr nestled in cloudy …
Was reading Carroll Quigley’s Tragedy and Hope a while back. Quigley is a bête noire of US conspiracy theorists, who use a single sentence from this massive (over 1300 pages!) to build an edifice of exposing a supposed massive conspiracy of British and American bankers (or whoever) who control every event of the last century. …
The words will disappear,The memory fades.The eternal is fleeting — Catch it!And only the ephemeral abides.The deepest truths vanish when spokenTo unlistening ears. And if two gaze at the moonFrom far flung ends of the globe,They see different eddies of lightIn the ever-changing river.The orb moves on across the skyUnconcerned. And yet…The dark gathers round,Embracing …
President Bush’s straw-man argument against “isolationism” was perhaps the biggest revelation in his State of the Union speech Tuesday. Rarely are we able to see talking points being born, and this latest fight against a non-existent enemy is interesting only for the call to arms against an enemy which should leave most Americans asking, “Who …
