Word: delusionment
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My discovery of competitive air guitar, a deliciously addictive niche of pop culture, came unexpectedly at the 2006 South by Southwest Film festival in Austin, Texas. It was there that I stumbled across a film proclaiming to be the “Official Story of America’s Unofficial...
Thank God for Judi Dench. As long as she is around, giving people a steely gaze and telling it like it is, whether as James Bond’s cantankerous boss in “Casino Royale” or as the “battle axe” of...
In June of 1860, less than a year after the publication of Darwin’s “The Origin of Species,” Samuel Wilberforce, the Bishop of Oxford, and biologist Thomas Huxley addressed the claims of the controversial book in a highly publicized debate. Wilberforce, speaking...
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins—There are no more profound questions than those involving reason and faith.
It is too soon to tell if Sept. 11 will usher in a new era of moral seriousness, an end to the age of anomie and irony. But if Messud’s superb novel is any indication, our inanity and self-delusion may be more enduring than we think...