The purpose of organizations and associations is to protect insiders from the consequences of incompetence, which is why socialism is worse than big business, and the one-party system is worse than the two-party system. One of the drawbacks of the two-party system, though, is that once one of the . . . . Continue Reading »
A new and cheering venture: the Student Free Press Association . “Run by veteran journalists for the benefit of beginning journalists,” according to its website, the SFPA is “is an individual membership organization of college-aged writers, bloggers, tweeters, podcasters, and . . . . Continue Reading »
Joe’s ridiculous dissing of Rocky and Bullwinkle last week reminded me of one of those startling experiences of moral disjunction one has from time to time. Ten or so years ago, I was squatting down in a local video store looking on a low shelf for Rocky and Bullwinkle videos . . . . Continue Reading »
A few weeks ago, David Mills mentioned The City . The fall issue is now out. To whet your appetite: Matt Milliner discusses the two art worlds, Jay Richards writes on Christianity and socialism, and Albert Mohler reviews Christian Smith. Read it here . . . . . Continue Reading »
I was reading a story this morning, and I couldn’t believe my eyes. The term embryo is used in a scientifically accurate way! And it struck me, yet again, how the term embryo is used or not used depending on whether we are being spun to justify destroying or using nascent human . . . . Continue Reading »
Should Intelligent Design be taught as science? Stephen Barr, professor of physics at the University of Delaware (and First Things contributor), debates that question with Michael Behe, a professor of biochemistry at Lehigh University and senior fellow at the Discovery Institute. You can listen to . . . . Continue Reading »
In How We Live Today , Joseph Bottum offers three images for how we live today, beginning with a bowling league. This is one of those essays the description of which gives away the effect, so just go read it. . . . . Continue Reading »
As Open Culture notes, the Italian web site Haltadefinizione has a unique way to view six masterpieces from the famous Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Each painting can be viewed in super high resolution—close to 28 billion pixels, a resolution 3,000 times greater than your normal . . . . Continue Reading »
The London-based graphic designer Yanko Tsvetkov calls this a ” Geography of Prejudice .” I call it an “Accurate Assessment of How We Really View Europe”: (click to enlarge image) Here are some other countries: As seen by France . . . . . . and Great Britain . . . . . . and . . . . Continue Reading »
The Book: Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture by Adam S. McHugh:10 — The Gist: Many churches—particularly evangelical churches—tend to be extroverted places where introverts are marginalized, causing some Christians to feel they are not being . . . . Continue Reading »
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