It was a year ago when my wife and I began thinking of taking a vacation trip to our nation’s capital. A friendly fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee recommended lodging in the center of town in order to be close to the sights. And what could be more convenient–or more secure–than The White House? Tennis, swimming, excellent food, fine Read More ›
If illegal use of confidential FBI files is proven, Filegate will most resemble that part of Watergate wherein White House zeal to dig up dirt on others led to dirty practices–and genuine scandal. No one familiar with the White House pass system could believe that “Project Update” was merely concerned with reviewing 407 FBI files of former presidents’ aides to see if they still merited passes. That transparently false explanation is even more suggestive of a cover-up than the reluctance of the White House to provide Congress with evidence of the affair.
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As it struggles to comprehend nature, science sometimes has to completely re-think how the world works. For example, Newton’s laws apply to everyday objects but can’t handle nature’s tiny building blocks. Propelled by this discovery, quantum mechanics overthrew Newton’s theory. Revolutions in biology have included the cell theory of life in the 19th century, as well as the slow realization Read More ›
The following is Michael Behe’s response to the essays published by Boston Review following Allen Orr’s review of Darwin’s Black Box. Allen Orr Professor Orr has a mistaken notion of irreducible complexity. I thought I made that clear in my reply, but from his response I suppose I did not, so let me try again. I define irreducible complexity in Read More ›
According to Michael Ward’s announcement in the 1996 issue of the Wade Center’s journal SEVEN, donations are being accepted for a handsome C. S. Lewis memorial to be erected along Addison’s Walk at Magdalen College in time for Lewis’s 1998 centennial. The President of Magdalen College approves. A distinguished stonemason named Alec Peever (who has original works in Westminster Abbey, Read More ›
In the D. L. Scudders bookstore in Fresno, CA, Mr. Scudders offered Lewis buff David Baumann a copy of the July 1964 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. On pp. 74-75 the editors published a Lewis poem prefaced by the following significant tribute. C. S. Lewis wrote a wide and rich variety of books — the well-known Read More ›
NOTE: In PUBLISHED VERSION OF LEGACY the even numbered lines were indented two spaces, they are not indented here due to HTML format. THE END OF THE WINE Punch, 3 December 1947 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1964 1. You think if we sigh as we drink the last decanter 2. We’re sensual topers, and thence you Read More ›
Maureen Daisy Helen Moore Blake, Lady Dunbar of Hempriggs (born 19 August 1906) passed away on 14 February 1997, taking to the grave her memories of life with the Lewis brothers. She and her mother had started living with C.S. Lewis in late 1918 or early 1919, when she was a 13-year-old schoolgirl and Lewis was a 19 or 20-year-old Read More ›
Bodleian Library Ph: 01865 277175 Fax: 01865-277187 E-mail: jap@bodley.ox.ac.uk Western Manuscripts Oxford University Broad Street Oxford OX1 3BG England Has an extensive collection of Lewis manuscripts along with copies of those at the Marion E. Wade Center. Access to the materials is restricted to serious researchers with a Reader’s Ticket. Contact the library for details. C. S. Lewis and Public Read More ›
An excerpt from Fakes, Frauds and Other Malarkey by Kathryn Lindskoog CARLOS CASTANEDA’S graduate studies at the University of California were one of the most preposterous hoaxes of all time. While witching his way to a Ph.D., he sold 4 million books and became a famous cult figure. One of his academic defenders said that he was “a fine, gentle, Read More ›