Australia is an English-speaking country, technically, but as an American immigrant here I sometimes have trouble understanding the locals. (What’s a “galah”? Can you eat it for brekkie?) They, on the other hand, have almost no trouble understanding me, with all the American . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t know much about the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, except that I read somewhere that he gave his wife Nadezhda a pacifier and persuaded her to wear it around her neck on a string of pearls so that he could stick the pacifier in her mouth whenever she interrupted him, which apparently . . . . Continue Reading »
I agree with Paul Seaton in this thread. The move from “liberal” to “progressive” was mostly a branding response to changing public understanding of the term “liberal.” I can’t find it right now, but in David Frum’s book on the 1970s he wrote about . . . . Continue Reading »
This has to be one of the more creepy ads of the year, right up there with Lena Dunham’s voting-is-like-sex ad for Obama. Ryan Bomberger is an African-American pro-lifer who runs the Radiance Foundation. He said this, “The Center for Reproductive Rights, like Planned Parenthood, . . . . Continue Reading »
The pro-life movement has always been accused of opposing the progress of women, trying to expel them from the workplace and entrap them in the home to do nothing but prepare food and bear children. Now that women lead the pro-life movement (a development that not even the Washington Post and the . . . . Continue Reading »
Lutherans, according to Reuters, “bristle” at the idea that the Catholic Church might offer a group for converts from Lutheranism who want to keep aspects of their tradition, as Anglicans wee offered an “ordinariate” in Benedict’s Anglicanorum Coetibus . Rev Martin . . . . Continue Reading »
This really isn’t the time to be starting a law school, at least in the United States. Lawyers face uncertain job prospects–the poor economy, outsourcing, and technological innovation continue to reduce demand for lawyers–and fewer and fewer people see a legal education as a good . . . . Continue Reading »
at Time.com: Are today’s young adults struggling for too long, unable to leave the nest after years of helicopter parenting—-or are they just reliving the same issues that previously stumped their elders? New York Times magazine writer Robin Marantz Henig and her daughter Samantha Henig, . . . . Continue Reading »
The latest issue of The Journal of Moral Theology , titled Christology , is just out and available online. Among the papers included are “Christ, Globalization, and the Church” “Modern Pluralism or Divine Plentitude? Toward a Christological Ontology,”, and a review . . . . Continue Reading »
Today, of all days, this video from the Susan B. Anthony List is well worth viewing: . . . . Continue Reading »
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