Rod Dreher reflects on the confession of the sad and pitiable Elizabeth Wurtzel, who described her One-Night Stand of a Life in the January 14th issue of New York magazine. She begins, as Rod notes, writing what seems to be a confession but ends with (unless she’s being very subtly . . . . Continue Reading »
Funnier to those of us who do this kind of work than to the rest of you, but still worth commending: 4 Copy Editors Killed In Ongoing AP Style, Chicago Manual Gang Violence . . . . . Continue Reading »
Elizabeth Scalia on the Republicans’ atomic stupidity : The GOP, even if they could figure out exactly what they want and then rouse themselves to something resembling tenacity, has no equivalent support, and would therefore be unable to successfully bring about their policy ideas by using . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s an interesting report from NPR on two recent prosecutions for the crime of blasphemy in Greece. In the first, the government brought a blasphemy charge against the poster of a Facebook page that mocks a famous Orthodox monk; the government has since dropped the blasphemy . . . . Continue Reading »
Archaeologists in Turkey are uncovering well-preserved remains of Myra, home of the beloved St. Nicholas in the third and fourth centuries. From the New York Times : Archaeologists first detected the ancient city in 2009 using ground-penetrating radar that revealed anomalies whose shape and size . . . . Continue Reading »
The Passive Voice is abused when the agent of the verb is not general and is indeed of consequence, but the writer wishes to obfuscate. Bureaucrats and politicians abuse the passive all the time, to hide responsibility. Consider the following sentences: The . . . . Continue Reading »
1. So some have asked: Where’s your incisive commentary on holiday movies? 2. Well, I saw LES MIZ: It’s an edifying tale of how personal transformation through faith and charity is real and how transformation through political revolution is a bloody illusion. 3. As a Tocquevillian, I . . . . Continue Reading »
On God and Downton Abbey Todd Dorman, Christianity Today Constitutionalism, Orestes Brownson, and Hegel Richard Reinsch, Library of Law & Liberty Can Forgiveness Play a Role in Criminal Justice? Paul Tullis, New York Times Tracking the Times on Contraception Michael J. . . . . Continue Reading »
The New York C.S. Lewis Society (founded 1969) is the oldest society for the appreciation and discussion of C.S. Lewis in the world and holds Meetings every second Friday of the month (except August). Our very own David Mills will be speaking there on April 12 for those of you who will . . . . Continue Reading »
TNT magazine reports : Yesterday saw the first ‘service’ of The Sunday Assembly, London’s first atheist church. Priding itself on its tagline ‘live better, help often, wonder more,’ The Sunday Assembly is the brainchild of Sanderson Jones and musical comedian Pippa Evans, . . . . Continue Reading »
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