Our friends Alan Jacobs and David Goldman give their thoughts on The Hobbit , a quick response to which I wrote on Saturday. Alan’s review is fairly critical. Reacting to all the action — what I called the “bang/pow/slash/crash/boom” stuff — he wrote: all I could . . . . Continue Reading »
The Jewish Daily Forward reports that British schools will be required to offer at least one of seven foreign languages, excluding Hebrew: LONDON — The British government reportedly is planning to exclude Hebrew from a list of recognized foreign languages in the national education . . . . Continue Reading »
So I’ve always liked Jonathan Rauch and regarded him as sometimes singularly in touch with the facts. Here’s one example: For the most obvious reason, he’s all for same-sex marriage, but he knows it’s better for everyone if the courts stay out of the struggle. Here’s . . . . Continue Reading »
The word redundant suggests a wave that keeps splashing over the side of the boat, over and over. We use it to signify something unnecessary because it has already been said or done. It is not the same as repetition, which can be extraordinarily effective. Redundancies in poor writing . . . . Continue Reading »
Regarding Amy Wax’s discussion of abortion and child support : As long as the law guarantees to a woman the absolute, unqualified and unconditional right, regardless of age or status, to give birth anonymously (as some 400 French women do every year, down from 4,000 in 1947), . . . . Continue Reading »
Rejoice Jerusalem Rev. George W. Rutler, Crisis What Happened at the 2012 United Methodist Conference? John Lomperis, Juicy Ecumenism The Puritan War on Christmas Rachel N. Schnepper, New York Times “Broader Societal Problems” vs. “Isolated Incidents” Terry Mattingly, . . . . Continue Reading »
With year’s end drawing near the editors of the Wall Street Journal ‘s weekend review section asked fifty “friends” to tell us their favorite books of 2012 . We hear from TV personalities, businessmen, writers, politicians, a college president, two baseball managers, three . . . . Continue Reading »
Rich Lowry notes that the video recorded assault on Steve Crowder by pro-union demonstrators does not seem to have gotten much reaction in the mainstream media news sections. Compare the lack of mainstream media interest in this story with the many media insinuations that the Arizona shooter was or . . . . Continue Reading »
Roger Scruton takes to the pages of the London Times with a circumspect, but terribly cutting, treatment of the push for gay marriage (sub req): If we ask ourselves how it is that the advocacy of gay marriage has become an orthodoxy to which all our political leaders subscribe, we . . . . Continue Reading »
Filmed September 13 at the Royal Institution, London. . . . . Continue Reading »
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