Below, I complained that a) The White House, and b) the media have failed to make even minimal efforts to explain to U.S. citizens what our war-making policy now is in Libya, given Qaddafi’s fall. But now, c) NATO, has comprehensively explained everything. . . . . Continue Reading »
In a recent edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education , Jay Parini argues the case for what many of us already know: G.K. Chesterton was a “major critic, biographer, and deep thinker of sharp wit.” It has been over half a century since Maisie Ward’s major biography of G.K . . . . Continue Reading »
A Strange Review: Higher Ground Strange Herring , Anthony Sacramone U.S. Logs Big Drop in Crime Wall Street Journal , Evan Perez A Papal Homecoming To a Combative Germany New York Times , Nicholas Kulish U.N. May Delay Vote on Palestinian Statehood Application Los Angeles Times , Paul Richter . . . . Continue Reading »
In the October issue of First Things , R.R. Reno examines our culture’s confusion about the purpose of the institution of marriage : Proponents of same-sex marriage frame their cause in terms of civil rights. There are no significant moral or cultural differences between homosexual couples . . . . Continue Reading »
Environmentalism ain’t what it used to be. Rather than being beneficently about maintaining a clean environment and promoting conservation, the radical edge has been pushing increasingly toward the dark side—turning anti human exceptionalism and anti progress. And alas, these days . . . . Continue Reading »
This week, the Southern Baptist Convention announced it is launching yet another committee to examine changing its name. The goal is to better reflect the fact that, aside from folks who live at the North Pole, they’re not necessarily always geographically “Southern” anymore. . . . . Continue Reading »
Every day the company screwed with its employees.They told us they would and even laughed about it.You see I worked (ever so briefly) for a company that made metal fasteners, including screws. The puns cannot all be repeated here, but never varied much.Working in that plant, along with summers spent . . . . Continue Reading »
You might remember that in February we published an interview with Win Riley , the director of the forthcoming Walker Percy: A Documentary Film . Well, the forthcoming has finally come. If you’re in New York City, you can catch a screening of the film this Saturday , presented by Crossroads . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Ricochet. The Great Lie is the new book of essays on totalitarianism edited by my friend Flagg Taylor. UPDATE: Professor Taylor’s own words on the book, with some excellent material in the comments. . . . . Continue Reading »
For those of you in the part of the country where Eastern Catholicism is mostly to be found (New Jersey and Maryland straight across to Michigan, for the most part), a concert series you will want to know about: The seminary choir from the Blessed Paul Gojdich Seminary in Presov, . . . . Continue Reading »
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