After a twelve-year absence, the revered indie director Whit Stillman has just finished filming a new movie—at last. The December 2010 First Things offers the first extensive profile of Stillman in years, an exclusive look at his exile from Hollywood and his struggle to get funding for a new . . . . Continue Reading »
Prospect magazine has an excellent article on moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre’s view of money and global capitalism . There is certainly much to disagree with in MacIntyre’s critique, but it is provocative and worthy of serious reflection: When it comes to the money-men, MacIntyre . . . . Continue Reading »
Though Amazon.com quickly decided to pull The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure off its shelves, they continue to sell other books in the same genre. That’s probably not news to most. But take a look at their reported reasoning: “Amazon.com believes it is censorship not to . . . . Continue Reading »
From time to time we will be publishing reports and articles from outside our usual circles and subjects, when readers might find the information or the analysis of interest. (Hence the use of the “guest” byline.) Posting it doesn’t mean we agree with it, or with all of it, only . . . . Continue Reading »
After I left the Episcopal Church to enter the Catholic Church a half a dozen years ago, a good and wise friend told me to avoid taking pot shots from afar. Sage advice. But a video by Gene Robinson this is part of the It Gets Better campaign has a line that strikes me as telling, and I can’t . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Okay, so that title makes no sense. But I did see part of the CMA awards show the other night. 2. Marc Guerra, America’s leading theologian, reminds me that I haven’t posted on the wonderful conference (the first in our University of Chicago Science of Virtues/Stuck with Virtue . . . . Continue Reading »
For those of you who didn’t look at the list of resources at the end of R. R. Reno’s The Idols of Revisionist Theology , let me point you to the very interesting essay he quotes and commends: the Lutheran theologian David Yeago’s Gnosticism, Antinomianism, and Reformation . . . . Continue Reading »
Despite the pleasure he took in the election results, writes David Hart in today’s “On the Square” article, Anarcho-Monarchism : as is always the case here below in the regio dissimilitudinis , the pleasure is accompanied by an inevitable quantum of pain. The sweetest . . . . Continue Reading »
Matt Anderson makes a very astute observation about the younger generation of evangelicals : Here’s my hypothesis as to why young evangelicals tend to be drawn toward Randian libertarianism or Obama-style pragmatic liberalism: we think of ourselves as elites, even though most of us . . . . Continue Reading »
Daniel Born wonders , “What if every soldier and politician were required to be a lit major?” It sounds far fetched, I know. Textual critics would run the Pentagon. Generals and colonels commanding the tanks, Predator drones, and Green Berets would all be required to carry well-worn . . . . Continue Reading »
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