B. D. McClay

Happy Tuesday! Here’s what we have for you today. The Puritans did not have “art,” in the modern sense, says Maureen Mullarkey —just beauty . Peter Leithart is reading about: Dickens , Auerbach , Joban complaints , Abraham , and cinematic sex . Here at First Thoughts , we . . . . Continue Reading »

Happy Monday-after-Thanksgiving! Here’s what we put up for you to read over the weekend: Over at Postmodern Conservative , Peter Lawler thinks about football (“it’s sobering to know that the location of football excellence in our country . . . is now in the particular state of . . . . Continue Reading »

Happy Wednesday! Here’s what we have for you to read today: Over at Postmodern Conservative , Carl Scott is also reading The New Republic . Peter Leithart is still reading about the Trinity , and also Objectivism (not that Objectivism . . . I think). Dr. Boli made a few mistakes : “The . . . . Continue Reading »

Happy Tuesday! Here’s what we have for you to read today. Over at Postmodern Conservative , two short (even Leithartian) posts from Peter Lawler as he reads the New Republic : why Malcolm Gladwell makes you stupider , why the Iran deal is doomed . Quoth Maureen Mullarkey : “The lunatic . . . . Continue Reading »

Happy Monday! Let’s get to it. “Let’s face it,” Peter Lawler says over at Postmodern Conservative : “The FILIBUSTER isn’t in the Constitution.” Meanwhile, Carl Scott still doesn’t want you to read that biography of Woodrow Wilson, no matter how tempted . . . . Continue Reading »

Happy Friday! As we head toward the weekend, and inch toward Thanksgiving, here’s some reading for you: Over at Postmodern Conservative , Pete Spiliakos is in favor of the filibuster rule change. Maureen Mullarkey takes on “art in drag” (as science). Today, Peter Leithart is . . . . Continue Reading »

It’s Thursday! Here’s what we have for you to read today: Over at Postmodern Conservative , Carl Scott wants to clean house and Pete Spiliakos wants to qualify certain praises of Mike Lee. Peter Leithart on the body and the soul: the ear , the bones , and hunger (more here ). Dr. Boli . . . . Continue Reading »

Happy Wednesday! At Postmodern Conservative , Carl Scott grades a student and writes on happenings in Albuquerque and Kabul . Peter Leithart has three posts today, all on music: Scruton on Wittgenstein on music, Proust on music, and music by Smith Leithart . Dr. Boli has the only career advice . . . . Continue Reading »

Happy Tuesday! At Postmodern Conservative , Peter Lawler thinks about the progressive rejection of the ACA and Pete Spiliakos draws a lesson from Nancy Pelosi and the media . Maureen Mullarkey on El Greco : “It is one of the oddities of cultural history that this non-Spaniard, buried in an . . . . Continue Reading »

To open these reflections with an unavoidably terrible sentence: Peter Gordon’s review of Carlos Fraenkel’s book Philosophical Religions from Plato to Spinoza in the New Republic is an interesting account of what sounds like an interesting book. Still, the review left me with several . . . . Continue Reading »