Position Papers

‘Stranger Things’ and the New Jerusalem

The end times have come. No, not the Apocalypse. Just a popular culture phenomenon - Stranger Things. This is Netflix’s incredibly successful science fiction magnum opus. Science fiction, however, is only a fraction of the narrative genre that it represents. It certainly touches on the apocalyptic genre and like the Apocalypse its central theme is the struggle between good and evil....

‘Stranger Things’ and the New Jerusalem The end times have come. No, not the Apocalypse. Just a popular culture phenomenon – Stranger Things. This is Netflix’s incredibly successful science fiction magnum opus. Scien…

We need to talk

The School of Athens Socrates died for it. Charlie Kirk died doing it. They both died because some people, powerful or not, hated them for what they said and did. Socrates died from a dose of hemlock his enemies obliged him to swallow; Kirk died from a bullet in the neck. Essentially what these two men had in common, and for which they were hated by their political enemies, was the dangerous habit of trying to dialogue and converse with those who opposed them....

We need to talk The School of Athens Socrates died for it. Charlie Kirk died doing it. They both died because some people, powerful or not, hated them for what they said and did. Socrates died from a dose of hemlo…