charles dickens

Charles Dickens is one of the greatest writers, ever. He exposes woo-woo thinking in the best way possible, he pokes fun at it and exposes it in a way that is both humorous and appalling and in a manner that may get someone off their bottom and want to change things. Was his defense of...

It's the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of the great writers in the English language, Charles Dickens. Born in Portsmouth (something he shared with Christopher Hitchens, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and zooterkin), he grew up in Chatham in Kent and London (when his father was sent to...

It's a conversion from Judaism to Christianity, actually. To be fair Scrooge is what I would call an un-Jew. There are lot of un-Jews in Victorian literature as well a lot of un-sex (but that's another story). An un-Jew is when every single bit of context and circumstance and behavior...

Greetings. I've been lurking on here for quite a while, finally time I posted. As I was driving home on Xmas eve, I caught part of the audio version of A Christmas Carol on the radio. Having just finished reading Atlas Shrugged a couple weeks ago gave me an interesting perspective on it. I...