From Russell Moore’s book Tempted and Tried : In our time pornography has become the destroying angel of male Eros. I don’t mean to suggest that pornography is only a male temptation (it is not), but pornography, because of the way a man has been designed toward arousal is, when . . . . Continue Reading »
For almost twenty years Ken Burns’ The Civil War has been one of the ” cultural vegetables ” that have never made it onto my plate. I missed the original when it aired on PBS and never found time to watch it when it came out on DVD. Now it sits in my Netflix “Watch . . . . Continue Reading »
William F. Gavin on a recent ” dramatization of an ideological act of faith “: There I was, watching yet another Law and Order re-run on TNT. In this episode a scientist claimed to have discovered a gene for homosexuality. During the second half of the show, the district attorneys had . . . . Continue Reading »
Food for thought of the day : “One of the things that make a warrior into a warrior,” says former Navy SEAL Eric Greitens, “is that they are dedicated to developing their strength in service to others.” . . . . Continue Reading »
Sometimes, Woody Allen’s fantasy from Annie Hall actually happens:I provide a lot of latitude here on my blog for people to disagree with me, call me names, and cast aspersion on my motives. That’s why I don’t generally read or respond to private emails that criticize what I . . . . Continue Reading »
Comments by ME on Gates’ warning our NATO Allies. . . . . Continue Reading »
I concluded the Songbook #6 essay by quoting Chantal Delsol in partial defense of, or rather, in sympathetic re-conceptualization of, the idealistic anti-war impulse. Delsol is a philosophic, essayistic, “anthropological,” Tocquevillian, and Catholic analyst of our present “late . . . . Continue Reading »
Global warming hysterics have resorted in recent years to one of the biggest gun in any political advocacy arsenal—the lawyers. Suits have been brought, for example, against businesses that have acted within existing pollution regulations—for spewing carbon dioxide and supposedly warming . . . . Continue Reading »
These kind of stories are appearing with greater regularity in the UK papers: A Christian discusses his or her faith with a colleague, or offers to pray with a patient—and gets the sack and/or is put through the job discipline ringer. (Here’s an example from just a month . . . . Continue Reading »
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