California Literary Review

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Articles written for the California Literary Review:

• An Interview with Rebecca Goldstein, author of “Betraying Spinoza”
  Posted on 30 Mar 2007 in Biography, History, Non-Fiction Reviews, Philosophy, Religion, Spain
  

  “The issue that animated his life and his thought was that of religious intolerance. The Jews who excommunicated him at the tender age of 23 had themselves been victims of a prolonged, horrific exercise in both religious (as well as racial) intolerance. Spinoza uses this history of suffering to reason his way into uncompromising universalism, an outlook that reduces all the contingencies of birth–our religion and race and, by extension, our nationality, gender, sexual orientation–to details of no significance whatsoever in the real process of self-fulfillment.”

• An Interview With Biographer James Connor
  Posted on 30 Mar 2007 in Biography, Mathematics, Non-Fiction Reviews, Philosophy, Religion, Science
  

  “This means that we are a people who now live in that shadow world of quasi-existence. What matters to us is not necessarily what is real, but what is possible given the state of things. This is a big change, and constitutes a fundamental shift in the way we understand the world.”

• The Strange World of Quantum Entanglement
  Posted on 30 Mar 2007 in Non-Fiction Reviews, Science
  

  “Entanglement is a strange feature of quantum physics, the science of the very small. It’s possible to link together two quantum particles – photons of light or atoms, for example – in a special way that makes them effectively two parts of the same entity. You can then separate them as far as you like, and a change in one is instantly reflected in the other. This odd, faster than light link, is a fundamental aspect of quantum science…”