Tag Archives: mimetic theory

Gil Bailie Interviewed on The Patrick Coffin Show

Posted on January 6, 2020 by Randy Coleman-Riese

  Recently Patrick Coffin released on YouTube and his website an interview with Gil Bailie recorded in the Fall of 2019. For those who know and follow our work the 80 minute interview offers a kind of primer as Patrick … Continue reading →

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A California Yankee in Innsbruck

Posted on July 12, 2019 by Randy Coleman-Riese

The Colloquium on Violence and Religion’s 2019 conference is winding up what seems to have recently become its annual attempt to distance itself from René Girard’s Christian and Catholic sensibilities. That this is done in the name of Girard’s understanding … Continue reading →

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René Girard Via First Things

Posted on November 12, 2018 by Randy Coleman-Riese

The journal First Things has recently featured on its website a short essay by Peter J. Leithart entitled ‘Clashing Victimocracies!’  The author explores the privileged and problematic position of the ‘victim’ in current social and political debate. In doing so … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

Posted on September 25, 2016 by Randy Coleman-Riese

After having spent the past two and a half years editing and transferring Gil Bailie’s cassette recordings of Reflections on Dante’s Divine Comedy to the world of digital audio, I am now ready to take on the next transition task. … Continue reading →

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