Notes Toward a Dreampolitik

Right now I am in Los Angeles. I spent the holiday in the Dutch Caribbean, and my long trip back to California turned out to be several hundred dollars cheaper if it took me through Los Angeles rather than San Francisco, and anyway I hadn’t been in the Southland all year. As I was walking

The Voice of the Past

Last Ramadan, as I picked up Abdullah Yusuf Ali’s translation of the Koran, the translation that I have used my whole life, I decided to add something new. I figured that if I wanted to present myself as an intellectually serious person, I had better get a closer understanding of the Bible than what I