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What caused you to question the received wisdom? Back in 1993, I was reading a work of Augustine's attacking a Christian heretic. Usually when ancient orthodox Christians said terrible things about heretics, they found even worse things to say about Jews. Until 395, Augustine had not been much different, but here he was, writing about one of the flashiest heresies of his time and marshaling as arguments unbelievably positive things about Jews. As I read further, my scalp tingled. I had been working on Augustine for 20 years and I'd never seen anything like this before. Not only...
...learn from the students and often finds herself mostly listening to them rather than talking herself. In such an intellectual community, even Lewis, a well-respected writer, was intimidated at first. “I remember thinking the first week that I must think carefully before asking a question,” she says.But Lewis is not a figure who has shied away from a public role. As the first National Poet of Wales, Lewis filled a more visible position that allowed her to participate in public events, such as a poem recitation at the new Parliament building in Cardiff...
...Gawker offers unsolicited advice to •Hooverness of •lack of preparedness of for war - "I didn't campaign and say, 'Please vote for me, I'll be able to handle an attack'" - is disingenuously acknowledged by •The Onion imagines bad things happening to •response of to question about what he wished he could do over includes no mention of taking August 6, 2001, warning of imminent terrorism more seriously •responsibility for collapse of economy on watch of is awkwardly placed by on "decisions that were made...over a decade or so, before I arrived in President...
...Some advisers have been less clear. John Brennan, a former CIA official who has counseled Obama on intelligence matters, said in August that the use of the field manual was an open question. "Whether the Army Field Manual is comprehensive enough to cover all those tactics and techniques, that's something I think he'd look to his national security advisers for," said Brennan in an August interview with Congressional Quarterly. Last week Brennan withdrew his name from consideration for the top job at the CIA, after an outcry of protest from Obama's liberal supporters. Though he worked...
...court order on the Hebron eviction, but whether the raid emboldens the government to act against other settlements constructed outside of Israeli law remains to be seen - and will be determined, in no small part, by how events in Hebron unfold in the coming hours and days. The question may become somewhat moot if the current indicators on the likely outcome of February's election hold true, because Netanyahu has an ideological aversion to ceding territory in the West Bank and has made no secret of his disdain for the U.S.-sponsored peace talks between the current government...