Here is a challenging and disturbing—if of course quite one-sided—review of MOONRISE KINGDOM. Well, I’ve also discovered that liking Wes Anderson movies ranking very high on the famous list of things white people like. White people show their sophistication and sensitivity by . . . . Continue Reading »
Matthew Schmitz is dead on in alerting us to the negative impact of Fears of ‘Creeping Sharia’. Several US states, including Kansas, are taking legislative action to stop what they persist in believing to be a domestic threat from muslim sharia law. Such efforts are of dubious . . . . Continue Reading »
149 Protestant Leaders Petition for Broader Mandate Exemption David Gibson, Christian Century Of “Sacred Eloquence” in Christian Preaching Fr. Ryan Erlenbush, New Theological Movement Southern Baptists Set to Elect First Black Leader Travis Loller, Houston Chronicle . . . . Continue Reading »
The new Obama biography by David Maraniss finds still more composites haunting the pages of Dreams of My Father . That “still more” is not surprising, as Dreams says up front that some composites have been employed, but the importance of them to the narrative, and the lengths to which the . . . . Continue Reading »
“I met some kids in Thailand who worked on the street in a red-light district, and they sold flowers. They were going in and out of these brothels. That was the first place I felt like I came alive in the law and what I wanted to do.” Gayle Trotter: This is Gayle . . . . Continue Reading »
The Medical Establishment continues to try and misdirect the conversation on the pending threat of “death panels” under Obamacare. They pretend it is about “end of life discussions.” But even though Sarah Palin mistakenly made that allusion when she first coined . . . . Continue Reading »
Andrew Sullivan gleefully notes that New York City had only one diocesan priest ordained this year and gleefully blames traditionalism: The brilliant campaign of the current hierarchy to alienate their own flocks with political posturing, moral baseness, intellectual rigor mortis , and . . . . Continue Reading »
Trolling through the news, an article caught my attention. It stated, “When your best intentions go south, new research suggests that it wasn’t the devil that made you do it. It was your brain. Will power, the study found, is a finite resource, one that can be easily . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . has been dug out by my student assistant Jacob Stubbs. Let me know what you think. Three Hank Williams tunes! And I’ve been misunderstanding that Indian’s name for years. I know little about Benjamin Britten, but 20 minutes of googling taught me that he’s quite the . . . . Continue Reading »
TABLE OF CONTENTS July–September 2012, Vol. 41, No. 3 ARTICLES A School or a Stage? Tocqueville and Arendt on Politics and Education Brian Danoff Tocqueville and the Religion of Democracy Richard Avramenko Political Relativism in the Work of Martin Heidegger Jason Blakely Self-Knowledge and . . . . Continue Reading »
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