2012 archive
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Feb 21 2012
They didn’t break my bones
Homs, city of torture
By Jonathan Littell, Monday 20 February 2012 18.50 EST … In Bashar al-Assad‘s Syria, it is not just forbidden to speak, demonstrate and protest: it is also forbidden both to give medical treatment,… [more]Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/02/21/4821/
Feb 19 2012
Puffed-up, self-regarding, vain, prickly and militant
You don’t have to believe in God to cherish the Church
By Mary Ann Sieghart, Monday 20 February 2012 … The Church of England couldn’t hope for a better enemy than Richard Dawkins. Puffed-up, self-regarding, vain, prickly and militant,… [more]
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Feb 19 2012
Where the Litani River runs
House of Stone
By Anthony Shadid, published February 18, 2012 … The America that drew my family was 7,000 miles from where they started, in old Marjayoun, in what is now Lebanon. My aunts and uncles, grandparents and great-grandparents, were… [more]Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/02/19/where-the-litani-river-runs/
Feb 18 2012
Christianity after religion
The End of Church
By Diana Butler Bass, 02/18/2012 7:50 am … Something startling is happening in American religion: We are witnessing the end of church or, at the very least, the end of conventional church. The United States… [more]Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/02/18/christianity-after-religion/
Feb 18 2012
Rebuilding the house of Isber Shadid
Anthony Shadid yearned for home
By Jefferson Morley, Friday, Feb 17, 2012 5:42 PM 12:45:46 CST … Anthony’s Shadid’s now unbearably poignant book, “House of Stone,” opens with a scene of carnage that will be familiar to anyone who… [more]Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/02/18/rebuilding-the-house-of-isber-shadid/
Feb 18 2012
Does the past matter?
Eugenics: the skeleton that rattles loudest in the left’s closet
By Jonathan Freedland, Friday 17 February 2012 13.59 EST … Does the past matter? When confronted by facts that are uncomfortable, but which relate to people long dead, should… [more]
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