Last week the UVA Arrow, an alternative student weekly paper here at the University of Virginia, published the following interview (with me!), which I am proud, or at least willing, to bring to your attention. We caught up with Professor Ceaser at his office, legendary for its disorganization, just . . . . Continue Reading »
So this guy named Pete Spiliakos says I haven’t been totally consistent on nullification and interposition. Now I’d say that nullification and interposition are two different things. The first is the alleged legal rights of states to suspend the enforcement of any law a . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s my first big post on my conservatives. Nothing you don’t already know. Thanks for Carl being so attuned to the week of Wendell Berry, which I’ve been too busy to pay attention to. It goes without saying I’m somewhat less interested in Berry’s lecture than I was . . . . Continue Reading »
Beware. The government is hatching new ways to intrude into our lives, this time, to measure our happiness. Beware! That is an open ended invitation to intrusive bureaucracy.To warn my fellow citizens of the insidiousness of this seemingly benign initiative, I took to the Weekly . . . . Continue Reading »
It goes without saying that Fred Siegel should be reading my Rock Songbook, which underlines the middle-class mediocrity of most rock, even as it defends, with respect to music, the low, the high, and even the middle-brow version of the high. He could go to my last post , about the tensions between . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . is mostly a blistering attack on elitist intellectuals , including Ortega y Gasset and his Revolt of the Masses . You do not want to miss this one, and I’m not sure how long Commentary will let you read it for free. A lot of the essay reminds us just how bad so many intellectuals were, . . . . Continue Reading »
I can only shake my head. Some scientists and bioethicists insist that human behavior, being that we are supposedly mere meat machines, can be reduced to the sum of our biological and chemical interactions. Figure out how those work and it just becomes math—we can . . . . Continue Reading »
Michael Gerson is thankful for Chuck Colson’s life and example: In Memoriam: Charles W. Colson, A Life Well-Lived (1931-2012). Writes Gerson:I saw Chuck’s character close up. Chuck gave me my first job, as a research assistant working at Prison Fellowship. He also gave me a . . . . Continue Reading »
More on the” crises of competence and character” (as I call it) that has infected science—along with general society—as the West increasingly turns its back on what made it great and heads in a decidedly decadent direction. A UK scientist, now in the . . . . Continue Reading »
James R. Rogers on debt, gift, and sacrifice in the Hunger Games : The book, The Hunger Games , is of course better than the movie. The book’s story moves with the internal dialogue of the teen protagonist, Katniss. In contrast, the film’s story moves along through events external to . . . . Continue Reading »
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