So I discovered this guy Phil J. Gray while looking for a Bob Dylan song on YouTube. I’m actually glad that his version of Dylan’s “ Clothes Line Saga ” was all that I found because I learned of his particular grievance regarding Parking-Eye in the United Kingdom. This . . . . Continue Reading »
So I was watching William Kristol and he said that this Romney ad on Medicare shows that the Romney campaign has embraced one “big fact.” The Medicare cuts in Obamacare have made Obama vulnerable on both the Medicare issue and the broader health care issue (and it distinguishes . . . . Continue Reading »
I am trying harder to report outcomes involving stories covered here. Toward that end, a social worker disciplined for giving a colleague an anti-abortion tract has settled her case. From the Telegraph story:A Christian mental health worker who was sacked over her stance on . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter Lawler has some very useful thoughts below on the pros and cons of picking Ryan. Picking Ryan meant that Obama’s Mediscare campaign (which was coming anyway since Romney had already endorsed premium support Medicare) came early and possibly harder than it otherwise would . . . . Continue Reading »
Edward Feser has written a long and fascinating blog post on his road from libertarianism to conservatism. An excerpt: At the core of (Robert) Nozick’s and (Murray) Rothbard’s critiques of taxation, and of my own thinking about libertarianism, was the thesis of self-ownership, which holds . . . . Continue Reading »
At Reformation 21 , Carl Trueman enters a debate over the purpose of Protestant seminaries—specifically, whether they ought to make a point of actively sculpting the spiritual lives of their students or whether they should tend to the more mundane goals of . . . . Continue Reading »
Note: I mean “takes” on the subject, not necessarily on the book. 1) Here’s a 2009 review of a biography of Helen Gurley Brown , author of Sex and the Single Girl , the landmark 1962 book—both for the Sexual Revolution and 60s feminism—and editor-in-chief of . . . . Continue Reading »
Paul Miller is taking a year off from the Internet —no browsing, no email, no Facebook, no Twitter. I don’t know about you, but the idea of completely disconnecting is tempting. I sometimes wonder how much stuff I would get done if I weren’t distracted by email and Twitter. . . . . Continue Reading »
This has been a bad summer for the whiz-bang TED set. First Jonah Lehrer falls, then Fareed Zakaria, and now sociologist Philip N. Cohen takes Hanna Rosin to task for her wildly misleading TED talk. Basically, it seems that Rosin cobbled together a bunch of bogus or exaggerated . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve been on a T. S. Eliot kick of late. Last week I reread The Idea of a Christian Society , and for the first time read through Eliot’s elusive After Strange Gods , a volume he never allowed to be reprinted (but which is of course available on Google books ). I have always . . . . Continue Reading »
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