from the Institute

PHILOSOPHICAL AND LINGUISTIC CONTROVERSY ERUPTS OVER US MILITARY DECLARATION THAT FACES AND NAMES REFER TO IDENTICAL OBJECTS

"'The marines that I have had wounded over the past five months have been attacked by a faceless enemy,' said Colonel Brandl. ‘But the enemy has got a face. He's called Satan. He lives in Falluja. And we're going to destroy him.'" (Lieutenant-Colonel Gareth Brandl, on his second tour of duty in Iraq and in command of one of the battalions "at the tip of the spear" of the assault on Falluja)

A FORTHCOMING INSTITUTE REPORT WILL CONTAIN A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE UPROAR

Our up-to-the-minute report on this astonishing new development in military philology and its seismic effect across a spectrum of academic studies will include an account of the raging debate about where Satan currently resides, unintentionally sparked by a pictorial spread in a shelter magazine, Infernal Living, devoted to various interiors Satan has redesigned in his homes in Kabul, Rwanda, Washington DC, Berlin, Moscow, Peking, and other cities all over the world; a critical analysis of Maureen Orth's Vanity Fair article of September, 2002, "The Many Faces of Satan," a celebrity profile; and essays by several prominent scholars on such topics as "'Satan's White House Love Nest': How Tabloid Journalism Covers Satan," the implications of the popular television series "Touched by a Satan," which depicts "Satans" as a category of "fallen angels" in human form instead of an individual entity, and other Satan-related issues.


Velma Darwin
Associate Director