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I Am the Very Model of a Modern Ultramontanist

Clare Coffey

I am the very model of a modern ultramontanistIโ€™ve been congratulated as an excellent dialogistI have degrees from all the best colleges of theologyI do not know quite what...

Internet Confessional

Clare Coffey

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

Clare Coffey

Inspired by this photo spread from Seventeen magazine:  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

Clare Coffey

It is difficult to spend much time on the Internet without tripping over adviceโ€”reams of itโ€”on marriage. Tuning out the wit and wisdom of the hordes and looking instead...

In Defense of Her Majesties

Clare Coffey

So, Sesame Street brought on Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor to tell little girls to ditch the princess swag and start dreaming of law school . Poor Sesame Street. They...

Everythingโ€™s Coming up Rosen

Clare Coffey

Unless youโ€™ve been hiding out in a Nepalese hut contemplating the infinite, youโ€™ve probably paid some attention to the tempest swirling around Hilary Rosenโ€™s recent remarks about Ann Romneyโ€™s...