Don’t praise Playboy for being kosher: It is not the victory of religion

A year ago, in December 2015 Playboy magazine released its January/February 2016 issue. It featured 48-year old every-pubescent-boys-fantasy-lifeguard Pamela Anderson on its cover. This is a historic issue to say the least. It marked the end of an era spanning more than six decades, a magazine as infamous as the nude photos it carried in…

(Book) Silence

By Shusaku Endo The Japanese title of this book is 沈黙, read in Chinese as "chen mo" and in Japanese as "chinmoku", a kind of deep overwhelming silence. The first character is also my surname, but pronounced differently. It explores the theme of the hiddeness of god. The protagonist, a Jesuit, had to deal with…