Historical memory is malleable and imperfect. The truth about Nelson Mandela is that one may bring the full bill of charges against him and still find a great man: and that bill exists. The implacable critics on the right, and the post-facto triumphalists on the left, both forget Burke’s admonition.
This was not my plan. I had no intention of participating in Movember. But my wife and daughter are insistent.
Watch football or take a trip to the museum as promised?
Useful article over at Entrepreneur.com What You Need to Do on LinkedIn, Even if You’re Not Looking for a Job. With Infographic.
“Fundamentalism was born as the wrongheaded reaction to the crisis of modernity. Ironically, fundamentalism is an approach to faith that accepts modernity’s now discredited claim that empiricism is the sole source of knowledge. Feeling intimidated by the Scientific Revolution, fundamentalism takes a “scientific” approach to the Bible — which is perhaps the worst of all ways to approach Scripture.”