Steveawiggins

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4674 )

• Fragmented

  

  The existentialists, remember, used to put scenes in their plays to remind you that you were indeed watching a play.  In keeping with their philosophy, there wa... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Free Reality

  

  One thing movies can do especially well is to make you question reality. Early on this was more or less literally true as people couldn’t believe what they... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Paper Not Paper

  

  I’m sure other people have this problem.  I read hardback books with the dust jacket off.  Lest anyone accuse me of being consistent, my wife reminds me that I... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Whiggery

  

  It’s difficult to keep track sometimes.  You see, I’m reading a book that makes frequent reference to the Whigs.  The thing about titles is they change meaning... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Short-Changed

  

  Time often feels short.  When we back it up against the pencil marks on the doorpost we find it seems to shrink with its own passing.  It is nevertheless... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Various Plagues

  

  At the encouragement of a friend I watched Roger Corman’s version of Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death. As I’ve mentioned from time to time lately, making... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Slow Running

  

  It’s extremely slow.  In fact, you might think nothing is happening at all.  I mean the book publishing process, of course.  It takes a long time to read 60,000... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• State and Church

  

  An interesting article by Grace Davie notes how Patriarch Kirill, the Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus´, has been backing Vladimir Putin in his war of... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Aleph, Borges

  

  I’m never quite sure how I’m supposed to approach books of short stories. Some of them are truly massive and contain only a handful of tales I wish to read. Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Heat Wave

  

  Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future wasn’t my favorite book read the first half of this year, but reading the headlines about India’s heatwave... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Capital Idea?

  

  One of the most difficult parables in the New Testament is the one where Jesus praises the fraudster (in Luke 16).  In case you’re a little rusty it goes like... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Companies

  

  Perhaps you’ve seen them too.  Big companies that express what they do purely in platitudes that apparently impress business types. Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Pure Fear

  

  At work we have the opportunity to say a little about ourselves on a shared document for our teams.  This is a fairly new thing, so people I’ve worked with for... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Namely Coincidences

  

  One of my very first posts on this blog was about how I am not the Steve Wiggins who is a gospel singer. There I mused on the coincidence that we share fore... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Forgotten Goddess

  

  It’d’ve been nice if someone had told me.  If you’re not a professor, though, you’ve lost your importance.  I’ve only written a book on the subject, after all. Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• At Home Abroad

  

  You would’ve thought it was obsolete.  You see, we have the power to make it end, although the price is very high.  As a Cold War kid, I thought that the next... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Worth Reaching For

  

  At a recent meeting with a community-building group, the question was raised: what causes can we focus on without triggering the extreme divisiveness that... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Shaping Water

  

  When I write fiction the genre’s difficult to define.  The other thing is I tend to be behind when it comes to pop culture.  It can take me years to find the... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Haunting History

  

  It’s difficult to do without feeling guilty, even if you personally had nothing to do with it. It does seem that “Whites” have to take the initiative to... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• False Focus

  

  I seldom use my iPhone.  I admit that I like having a camera with me most of the time and I don’t look like a tourist.  I don’t text and when I feel like... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2022 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY