Author: George Wolff
George Wolff was a professor of English at the University of Cincinnati for thirty-eight years. He published a book and several articles on the American poet Theodore Roethke. He has published a book of poems, Loves and Dystopias. In 2009, he founded the Free Inquiry Group of Southwest Florida.
Add This to Reason!
“The irrational cannot be ignored.” So said the American poet Wallace Stevens. Humanists have successfully used the charge of “irrationality” in fighting religious beliefs since the eighteenth century, but Stevens, himself a lifelong nonbeliever, preferred to describe believers as “out of touch with reality” rather than as irrational. He did this because he wanted to …