Today’s Communism a shadow of its former self. Leftism gone astray. Society’s offal its focus, Marx and Engels would say . . .,In fact, Marx and Engels did say.

https://jimbowman.substack.com/p/todays-communism-a-shadow-of-its?sd=pf

Franz Liszt to the barricades of youthful deprivation . . ., With what’s on another plane from what they are used to . . .

https://jimbowman.substack.com/p/franz-liszt-to-the-barricades-of?sd=pf

Jesuits in training, PHILOSOPHY, 1954–57 . . . . Handmaiden to theology, said Thomas Aquinas . . .

https://jimbowman.substack.com/p/jesuits-in-training-philosophy-195457

When the family invaded the biggest city on a junket to see one of the girls and threw in Swarthmore to see another . . .,April of ’97, my friends, when the city probably never looked better . . .

https://jimbowman.substack.com/p/when-the-family-invaded-the-biggest?sd=pf

The Paradox of the Misanthropic Naturalist Animal Lover. Deny God, devalue man, and end up bear scat.

https://open.substack.com/pub/williamfvallicella/p/the-paradox-of-the-misanthropic-naturalist?r=7gnir&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Four hundred years of Blaise Pascal, whose words ring today as true as ever vs. spiritual doubt, skepticism and atheism . . .,His birthday months away, it’s time to review his famous bet . . .

https://jimbowman.substack.com/p/four-hundred-years-of-blaise-pascal

In your backyard is a jungle, if you only look . . . Jazz by telemarketer . . . Two writers walked into a bar . . . Poetry by Keats after a night out . . .

https://jimbowman.substack.com/p/in-your-backyard-is-a-jungle-if-you?sd=pf

John Keats and other writers . . .,Standing on others’ shoulders . . .

https://jimbowman.substack.com/p/john-keats-and-other-writers

Two from Blithe Spirit Weekly

July, ’96, black-white dialog hot and heavy. Harangue or not to harangue 26 years ago. Back and forth in the newspaper. Those were the days. . . .

. . . when you could talk and talk and talk . . .

“Grease” on sex . . . Church bells noisy . . . Michigan travelogue . . . Bill Murray on the campaign trail . . .

The July ’96 report, continued . . .

July, ’96, black-white dialog hot and heavy. Harangue or not to harangue 26 years ago. Back and forth in the newspaper. Those were the days. . . .,. . . when you could talk and talk and talk . . .

https://jimbowman.substack.com/p/july-96-black-white-dialog-hot-and?sd=pf