Archive for June 19th, 2007
The Appeal of Apocalypse
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007What is so seductive about the end of the world?
Evidence of the eschatonic impulse are around us everywhere. Disaster movies often reign supreme in the theaters — and the bigger the disaster (Independence Day, Armageddon, etc.) the more successful the movie. Foreign policy seems more and more a push for one last throw [...]

