17Mar

Gil Bailie & Jean-Michel Oughourlian on David Gornoski’s “Things Hidden” Podcast

March 17, 2023 Randy Coleman-Riese

08Mar

Imitation of our betters

March 8, 2023 Randy Coleman-Riese

Perpetual Felicity We recently (March 7th) celebrated the memorial of Sts. Purpetua and Felicity, two young women, one a noblewoman...

24Dec

December 24, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese

In past years in celebration of Christmas we have posted a short excerpt from the Hoover Institutions Uncommon Knowledge series...

21Oct

October 21, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese

In 2005 journalist Nathan Gardels interviewed René Girard. The resulting article was published in the Huffington Post under the title...

05Mar

March 5, 2022 Gil Bailie

We still speak of the “theater of war” even though all but the last vestiges of what our ancestors and...

11Feb

February 11, 2022 Gil Bailie

“Isaac reopened the wells dug by the servants of his father Abraham and blocked up by the Philistines after Abraham’s...

07Feb

February 7, 2022 Randy Coleman-Riese

Our absence from the weblog for the past month has been a result of the vicissitudes of aging as well...

14Sep

September 14, 2021 Randy Coleman-Riese

It is always encouraging to find others who are working to make the work of René Girard better known. Of...

03Sep

September 3, 2021 Randy Coleman-Riese

As we approach the twentieth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001 news outlets, internet pundits, and all...

02Jan

January 2, 2021 Randy Coleman-Riese

Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake? Soren Kierkegaard Some...