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I Am the Very Model of a Modern Ultramontanist
I am the very model of a modern ultramontanistIโve been congratulated as an excellent dialogistI have degrees from all the best colleges of theologyI do not know quite what...
Internet Confessional
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned; it has been one day since my last confession. Three times I participated in an argument about trigger warnings. Each time I...
Fifty Shades of Pretty
Inspired by this photo spread from Seventeenย magazine:ย 1. Blistered Red: This look is really what we as an industry are all about: ensuring that, like sex, beauty involves as...
Duty and Delight
It is difficult to spend much time on the Internet without tripping over advice—reams of it—on marriage. Tuning out the wit and wisdom of the hordes and looking instead...
In Defense of Her Majesties
So, Sesame Street brought on Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor to tellย little girls to ditch the princess swag and start dreaming of law school . Poor Sesame Street. They...
Everythingโs Coming up Rosen
Unless you’ve been hiding out in a Nepalese hut contemplating the infinite, you’ve probably paid some attention to the tempest swirling around Hilary Rosen’s recent remarks about Ann Romney’s...