KIERKEGAARD: A KIND OF POET ? Louis Mackey once wrote a book about Soren Kierkegaard in which he argued that Kierkegaard has always been misunderstood. He claimed, cogently I think, that rather than seeing SK as primarily a religious or philosophical thinker we should see him as primarily a literary or poetic thinker. I find…

A MORAL ISSUE ? When I was in high school way back when I took courses in Spanish. Living in the Northwest did not exactly help me when it came to studying Spanish. Neither was I what one might call a studious sort of young person. When I got to my fourth and final semester…