Jonathan B. Coe
In the chilling conclusion to M. Night Shyamalan’s 2000 superhero
thriller, Unbreakable, David Dunn (Bruce Willis) realizes with much
horror and disgust that Elijah Price, a.k.a. Mr. Glass (Samuel L.
Jackson), has orchestrated numerous terrorist acts (train wrecks, plane
crashes, ocean liners sinking, etc.) in order to find David, who has
special powers of unbreakable […]
Regis Nicoll
Some time ago, literary critic Stanley Fish observed that religion was
“transgressing the boundary between private and public and demanding to
be heard.” And that’s a dangerous thing because, as Mr. Fish sees it,
religion is based on claims that are excluded from tests of
“deliberative reason.” Take the resurrection of Jesus Christ. “The
assertion […]
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