Two links today. First, “At Stadium Club, young, professional women party while others strip,” from my hometown daily: It’s Friday evening in D.C., and three women arrive at the Stadium Club, a converted warehouse in Northeast. It is flanked by rundown brick buildings and a gritty . . . . Continue Reading »
From ” A Final Warning That the Pope Ignores at His Peril ,” a “cliches r us” leading article (or editorial) in the English newspaper The Independent attacking the “authoritarian,” “hardline,” thought-suppressing Pope Benedict and praising the . . . . Continue Reading »
This, of ourse, is the title of the instant classic of an exchange between Nick Eberstadt and Bill Galston in Saturday’s WALL STREET JOURNAL . Here are the summaries given of each position: Eberstadt: “With a treasure chest of government-supplied benefits readily available, a taker . . . . Continue Reading »
Some examples, 1. Reagan was pretty reticent personally but I think this selection from his 1980 debate with Carter works very well: I don’t know what the differences might be, because I don’t know what Mr. Carter’s policies are. I do know what he has said about mine. And I’m . . . . Continue Reading »
We left off the analysis of ALMOST FAMOUS at the key point, where we were about to get into what it says about Rock and Fame. That is a complicated subject, because you need to consider the phenomenon of Fame itself, before you get into what Rock does with it. Bowie’s deliberately sour song is . . . . Continue Reading »
There is no free will, that’s the implied message here. Liberals and conservatives have supposedly different neurologies according to several studies—some of which we have discussed here. From the ABC story:The studies looked at things like differences between groups’ . . . . Continue Reading »
Although Poland as a whole did not embrace the Reformation in the 16th century, the country nevertheless managed to produce a metrical psalter of high quality that is virtually unknown by outsiders. This is the Psa?terz Dawidów, or David’s Psalter, consisting of 150 metrical texts by the . . . . Continue Reading »
All right, I do begin to wonder at the direction of our Republicans. Sadly, my conversion was not through the good points made by my colleagues on the deficiencies of the Republican convention, neither those fierce ones of Mr. Piss and Vinegar, nor the lengthy argument I had with Pete. . . . . Continue Reading »
First Things friend Francis Beckwith of Baylor University recently reprimanded a Facebook friend for sending him a secretly made video of a Mormon temple service. Professor Beckwith rightly described this violation of trust and act of disrespect for others as shameful. People of different faiths . . . . Continue Reading »
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