Steveawiggins

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• Fear of the Artificial

  

  As someone who dedicated four years—particularly long winter nights—to the cause of high school robotics, I found myself knowing quite a bit before I walked int... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Mark of the Beast

  

  I grew up believing in “the Antichrist.” As I came to realize that much of the New Testament pointed to contemporary problems (for them) with the Roman Empire... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• True to Nature

  A friend recently sent me an article on Jack London from smithsonian.com. As the article by Kenneth Brandt makes clear, London is an author for our times. Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Hollow Bible

  

  The proofs for my article on the Bible in Sleepy Hollow are now here. It will be appearing shortly in the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture. For those... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Holiday Season

  

  Now that the holiday season is upon us, I stop to think about what holidays really do. “Keep Christ in Christmas” signs have popped up like winter dandelions... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Bibliotherapy

  

  This may sound strange, considering the source, but I fear I don’t read enough. An article by Sarah Begley in a recent issue of Time, reinforces what we’ve know... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Radio Nowhere

  

  Those of us who somehow managed to be educated without the use of computers, at least nothing more advanced than a TI-30 calculator, fumble our way through the... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Found in Translation

  

  Traduttore, traditore—“translators are traitors”—is an Italian saying invested with a great deal of truth. Anyone who’s worked with the proliferation of... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Abundance

  

  A few weeks before Leonard Cohen died I saw a story on how his song “Hallelujah” had been done to death. Covered and recovered, it seemed to be on every cover... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• United Or Untied?

  

  Beliefs can be most problematic things. I’ve spent the better part of the last five days in one of the reddest of “Red States.” People in Texas were... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• History and Its Discontents

  

  I’m standing in the lobby of the Menger Hotel. Before history becomes too falsified to recognize, I want to soak up the fact that Theodore Roosevelt organized... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Foundation Myths

  

  are some of my favorite myths. If you’ve got to believe in something, it may as well be something fun, right? Usually before I travel to a place I do some... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Post Post-Truth

  

  One of the benefits of working with words is that you get to participate in reality. George Orwell famously wrote that if people didn’t have the words to expres... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Who’s Bigger?

  

  Sometimes we have to work so very hard for unity. On the day before the conference proper began, I decided to take in some of the sites. In San Antonio this... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Remember the Alamo

  

  I’ve never started a fight. I’m actually a very conciliatory type, willing to be wronged in order to avoid an unnecessary confrontation. This election has made... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Are There Not Workhouses?

  

  As colder days settle in I add layers and sit in our under-heated apartment and think about the lot of the poor. I don’t think billionaires really understand th... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Cinematic Reality

  

  Even without the results of the recent presidential election, I would be reading about horror movies. One of the reasons is that I wonder what the appeal might... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• By Their Love

  

  One of my high school teachers—I don’t have to say who; if you attended my high school you’ll already know and if you didn’t you won’t know him anyway—wrote in... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Identity Crisis

  

  Since at least my middle school days I have been in search of the great Gothic novel. I can’t claim to have found it just yet, but I’ve read many notable sample... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Throwin’ Away My Shot

  

  In what sense can someone claim to win when they failed to get the majority vote? A crooked one, by definition. Some might say “rigged,” to use language that ha... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2016 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY