I’ve been weighing in against what seems to be a wide consensus that America must bomb Syria in order to “punish” or “send a message” or in some way tell the world that using chemical weapons “won’t be tolerated.” It’s a morally suspect way of . . . . Continue Reading »
Christ in the Capital of the World Mark R. Gornik and Maria Liu Wong, Christianity Today Interview with an Enamelist Iconographer Jonathan Pageau and Evgeny Baranov, Orthodox Arts Journal A Francis Confession Boom? John Bingham, Telegraph Paperwork and Power Peter Lopatin, Weekly Standard Lost . . . . Continue Reading »
Thanks to the amazing LAW AND LIBERTY, you can find out here . . . . . Continue Reading »
My selections get even more arbitrary here, because I’m both including songs deliberately seeking to revisit or rework the original sound, and ones that, perhaps unintentionally, to my mind evoke it. What is more, my knowledge gets spread more thinly here—I’m very spotty on . . . . Continue Reading »
At the Center for Law and Religion Forum today, I interview the Hudson Institute’s Samuel Tadros about his new book, Motherland Lost: The Egyptian and Coptic Quest for Modernity . In the interview, Tadros talks about the history of the Coptic Church, its important contributions to . . . . Continue Reading »
So I spent about an hour listening to John Kerry talking to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about President Obama’s proposed strike. Here are some thoughts: 1. Kerry argued that the refugee crisis from the Syrian civil war was destabilizing Jordan. That strikes me as more of an . . . . Continue Reading »
Jean Yarbrough makes a very apt comment on Powerline , in reference to the recent stories on the obscene and lawless bullying of the entrepreneur who brought Buckyballs to market , and the similar IRS bullying of the True the Vote leader: We need an updated online primer in American government and . . . . Continue Reading »
Hello, good ROFTers! We have no new On the Square posts for you today, but there’s a lot of new content over at our other blogs from this weekend and today, so here’s a roundup of things you may have missed. Over at Postmodern Conservative , Peter Lawler is a skunk , while James Cesar . . . . Continue Reading »
Allison Benedikt could perhaps stand to take a few lessons from Mark Twain or Will Rogers, because her obviously satirical article in Slate has elicited a number of angry responses from readers who have taken her seriously. Here’s the article at issue: ” If You Send Your Kid to Private . . . . Continue Reading »
Vonnegut and Labor Day Matthew Gannon & Wilson Taylor, Jacobin Clive James’ Dull Dante Ian Thomson, Financial Times The Dark Dove with the Flickering Tongue Matthew J. Milliner & Brett Foster, Books & Culture The Case for Christian Realism Stanley Hauerwas, ABC Religion & . . . . Continue Reading »
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