The American Apocalyptic Sublime and the Twilight of Empire
Ed Simon pulls at the thread of eschatomania linking an apocalypitic puritan poem to today’s news and literature. Continue Reading →
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The Second To Last Twentieth Century Book Club
“The Last Twentieth Century Book Club” is an ongoing monthly column exploring religious ephemera by Don Jolly. Continue Reading →
Updating Left Behind
Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins’ bestselling series, Left Behind, is getting book cover and content updates that “imagine how the network news would cover the end times.” Says Cheryl Kerwin, Tyndale senior marketing manager:
“We had begun this redesign process before the earthquakes and uprising in the Middle East this year. Events such as these tend to fuel interest in Bible prophecy, and we’re seeing that in our sales of Left Behind.”
LaHaye: Kagan's Apocalyptic Globalism
Could a Democratic Supreme Court nominee do less for progressive or liberal objectives than Elena Kagan? It’s hard to imagine. Even long-held party platform items like protection of citizens from corporations have been abandoned by this nominee (and nomination). But with the Republican party running alarmingly so long and far right — Nevada Senate primary victor Sharron Angle’s flirting with armed insurrection, for instance — what’s had to give in current American politics is a sense of the rational. Continue Reading →
LaHaye: Kagan’s Apocalyptic Globalism
Could a Democratic Supreme Court nominee do less for progressive or liberal objectives than Elena Kagan? It’s hard to imagine. Even long-held party platform items like protection of citizens from corporations have been abandoned by this nominee (and nomination). But with the Republican party running alarmingly so long and far right — Nevada Senate primary victor Sharron Angle’s flirting with armed insurrection, for instance — what’s had to give in current American politics is a sense of the rational. Continue Reading →
LaHaye: Kagan’s Apocalyptic Globalism
Could a Democratic Supreme Court nominee do less for progressive or liberal objectives than Elena Kagan? It’s hard to imagine. Even long-held party platform items like protection of citizens from corporations have been abandoned by this nominee (and nomination). But with the Republican party running alarmingly so long and far right — Nevada Senate primary victor Sharron Angle’s flirting with armed insurrection, for instance — what’s had to give in current American politics is a sense of the rational. Continue Reading →
World at War, Pt. 1
By Erica Ogg There are many ways to cover the same story, and few would expect The Baltimore Sun and NewsMax.com to choose the same angle — or that in Continue Reading →
World at War, Pt. 2
By Michael de la Merced The official box-office winner last weekend was a slick cinematic translation of a splatter-fest video game classic, but the most widely distributed movie debuted not Continue Reading →
This is The End
In honor of Glorious Appearing, the 12th installment of the mega-best-selling Left Behind series, a true tale of the apocalypse from Revealer editor Jeff Sharlet: The Apocalypse is Always Now (But Don’t Tell Joan Didion).
The Apocalypse is Always Now
On the eve of Glorious Appearing, the final installment of the bestselling Left Behind series, a true tale of the apocalypse from Revealer editor Jeff Sharlet Glorious Appearing (Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, 2004) I first heard Continue Reading →