The latest edition of Harper's Magazine has an article by Jeff Sharlet on how the Christian right is reimagining US history. R J Rushdoony gets quite a few column inches but Sharlet misses the worst aspect of this man's history: Holocaust Denial.

The latest edition of Harper's Magazine has an article by Jeff Sharlet on how the Christian right is reimagining US history. R J Rushdoony gets quite a few column inches but Sharlet misses the worst aspect of this man's history: Holocaust Denial.

I notice that the bookstore at WTS ( http://www.wtsbooks.com/ ) is puffing a new book by the late WIlliam Still, flagging it up with a godly puff from Sinclair Ferguson. Well, Willie made an impact on me too.

There's nothing like my annual alumnus magazine to make me feel a failure. This year, I read that one of my contemporaries was Rachel Weisz's boyfriend (!!!); and that two other alumni are responsible for those pillars of cutting-edge literary culture, `C**p Towns' and `C**p Towns II' (!!!!),...