Hogwarts Haven

Richard A. Blake, S.J., is professor of fine arts and co-director of the film studies program at Boston College. eality leaves a great deal to be desired. Reading the morning paper feels like an ongoing suicide pact with the universe, and listening to NPR without several doses of Prozac in hand can threaten one's tenuous grasp on sanity: Iraq, terrorism, environment, fundamentalism, economy, abuse, AIDS, drought, refugees, church and politics (a.k.a.

church politics). The world is such a botch, one might be tempted to ask, as the great political philosopher Casey Stengel once said of his pathetic Mets in the ...