It may please some of my readers to learn that the word whore and the name Cher are etymologically related. But how? The first thing we need to clear out of the way is that w at the beginning of whore. It doesn’t belong there. It’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Filmed Tuesday, January 8 at the Heritage Foundation: . . . . Continue Reading »
The Millenial Generation’s Acceptable Sin Barton Gingerich, The Gospel Coalition A New B-School Curriculum: Faith and Finance [video] Melissa Korn, Wall Street Journal The Best Books I Read Last Year Various, Catholic World Report Aquinas Versus Newton? Ed Feser, Ed Feser The Self in . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday was the fourth anniversary of the death of Richard John Neuhaus. Those who knew him intimately and those who knew him only through his writings share the pain of his loss. Since he was irreplaceable, it is scarcely a surprise that no one has taken his place in American . . . . Continue Reading »
The same quality that makes Russian novels so distinctive in world literature can also transform even sensitive Anglophone readers into the boy at the back of English class who keeps asking why Hamlet doesn’t just make up his mind already. It comes down to a certain implausibility in the . . . . Continue Reading »
Arrogant Without wading too deep into any technical lit-crit battles over the so-called death of the author, I think I can safely endorse the rule that, in general, one should not criticize a writer’s work by attacking his personal life. If an author happens to have been an adulterer, a . . . . Continue Reading »
Ross Douthat thinks they might be a thing of the past. For all the talk of Republican intransigence, I think that Paul Ryan and Alice Rivlin could get together to craft a left/right compromise - even one that includes higher taxes than anything Ryan has proposed. The problem is that . . . . Continue Reading »
Ramesh Ponnuru makes the case for a GOP debt limit fight about as well as it is going to be made by anyone. One way of looking at it is that refusing to unconditionally raise the debt ceiling in order to pay for already authorized spending is irresponsible. As Ponnuru points out, this assumes that . . . . Continue Reading »
So here’s a condensed version of maganimous—or FRIDAY NIGHTS LIGHTS—conservatism in one place. . . . . Continue Reading »
Elad Nehorai, a young Jewish writer, describes how he lost his faith in gay rights : It was the summer of 2008 in Chicago. The month before I went to yeshiva for the first time. I was excited. My friends and I had talked about doing this for a while now. We were going to the gay pride parade. . . . . Continue Reading »
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