Stranger In A Strange Car
Toward the end of my New Mexico journalistic career, I had a run-in with a celebrity driving a gold Land Rover – gold! I was backing my old Toyota coop … Read More
The 2020's
CONTEMPLATING MEDITATION
By Larry Joseph Calloway (c) Contemplare et contemplata aliis tradere (to contemplate and hand on to others the fruits of contemplation) – Motto of the Dominican order of Catholic friars.
Report From The Fringe
MY SISTER, who lives in New York and knows more than the usual number of professional actors, has never been to a fringe festival. So I sent her my review … Read More
5:30 A.M. July 16, 1945
(Some notes on Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer:” The re-enactment of the Trinity test setup in the unpopulated desert west of Alamogordo, NM, is true to life in my opinion, … Read More
Government Crisis Mfg. Co.
A View From The Factory Floor
A View From The Factory Floor BY Larry Calloway In the last half of his 30 years representing New Mexico in the U.S. Senate, Jeff Bingaman saw dysfunction of Congress … Read More
The Winning of the West and the Theft of Mt. Rushmore
How the Union army continued west after the Civil War. Reviews of "Lakota America" by Pekka Hamalainen and "West from Appomattox" by Heather Cox Richardson
How the Union army continued west after the Civil War. Reviews of “Lakota America” by Pekka Hamalainen and “West from Appomattox” by Heather Cox Richardson————————————————— The Dec. 5 (2020) New … Read More
Keeping Your Cool
In A Taliban Kind Of World
I recall the day at St. John’s College Santa Fe when news reached the Western world that the Taliban had blown up the two standing Buddhas carved in a … Read More
The Architecture Of Whatever Is
Spinoza’s Religion by Clare Carlisle (Princeton University Press, 2021)
This new interpretation of Spinoza, the persecuted 17th century advocate of scientific thinking, constructs an alternative to religious faith that goes beyond negative atheism. Clare Carlisle draws from his philosophy … Read More
The Curse Of Espinoza
Theologico-Journalistica Treatise No. 4
BARUCH SPINOZA in his youth suffered a thorough cursing by the elders of his Amsterdam synagogue, and 365 years later they’re still at it. The original writ against the 23-year-old … Read More