Pamela Fox makes really cool stuff. So says Tessa Miller on Life Hacker , a website the “curates [web-speak for exercising editorial judgment] tips, tricks, and technology for living better in the digital age.” I’m sure that’s true, about Pamela I mean. But she’s more . . . . Continue Reading »
Recasting Conservative Economics James C. Capretta, AEI Jurassic Generation Ari N. Schulman, New Atlantis Positively Medieval Stephen Cooper, History Today Against Ethnic Catholicism Dwight Longenecker, Patheos The Devil in Pope Francis’ Teaching Gerry Blaszczak, New Advent . . . . Continue Reading »
You might not have noticed it, but today is the National Day of Prayer. I should say, a National Day of Prayer, as that’s what the US Code calls it. Every year, by law , the President issues a proclamation “designating the first Thursday in May as a National Day of . . . . Continue Reading »
Republicans can and should be both. If Republicans choose to be the party of high-earner self-interest, Democrats will end up making policy in the long-term. . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Legal Insurrection, William A Jacobson writes about the costs of low information voters who get their information primarily through liberal-leaning (or sometimes straight partisan liberal) news outlets. I think the problem is less that they are low information than that many voters are no . . . . Continue Reading »
One of my favorite podcasts is The Christian Humanist Podcast . The podcast is “humanist” in the best sense of the term: the Renaissance sense. In other words, it’s committed to exploring “literature, philosophy and other things that human beings do well”—studying . . . . Continue Reading »
The Amherst College alumni program will host: An Evening with Professor Hadley Arkes: Reflections on his book First Things Wednesday, May 8, 2013 5:30-8:00 p.m. Penn Club 30. 44th Street W New York, NY This event will mark the 25th anniversary of Arkes’ book First Things and the . . . . Continue Reading »
blogs: I’ve been travelling a lot recently and in Anchorage (American Bar Association Family Law Section Meeting) I was on a panel with a doctor who does fertility work in southern California. He mentioned that it was now possible to give a gift certificate that allowed the recipient . . . . Continue Reading »
George Weigel on the radicalism of Pope Francis : “I wish to say to you frankly,” the pope continued, “that I prefer a thousand times an injured Church than a sick Church,” a risk-taking Church to a Church palsied by self-absorption. Thus the vision toward which this pope . . . . Continue Reading »
As I’ve mentioned before , I’m leading a seminar on the family and political thought. There are seven of us all told, five smart and accomplished young women, a sharp young man, and their cranky middle-aged professor. We’re finishing up by reading the . . . . Continue Reading »
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