These conservative reformers are total frauds. They don’t really want to change policy. That’s why they would never support cutting taxes on working-class families partly by eliminating deductions for high-earners. It is also why none of them have come up . . . . Continue Reading »
Dr. Levatino testified before Congress regarding the realities of abortion. His description is difficult to listen to, but Americans need to know what is really going on. Watch to the end. He ends with comments on the topic of abortion and women’s health. In discussing saving women’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Noah Baumbach loves Greta Gerwig and its not funny. Frances Ha is amusing, but the “ha” is always on its own, without an accompanying “ha” (repeat) that makes for real laughter. The movie is and is not about Greta Gerwig. Greta Gerwig has had a very . . . . Continue Reading »
Faith, in Poetry Mark Oppenheimer, Yale Alumni Magazine How Proust Can Save Memorial Day (Really) Robert Royal, Catholic Thing Amidst Jihadist Hatred, Something New Abraham Kuruvilla, Coptic Orphans Stay Out of Syria David Bromwich, New York Review of Books Gatsby Madness and the Millennials Emily . . . . Continue Reading »
Law has an outsized influence on American culture. And, according to University of Michigan Law Professor Dan Crane, religious skeptics have an outsized influence on the legal profession . He refers to a recent survey of students at an elite law school: According to Pew Forum data, people who . . . . Continue Reading »
For FT readers in the area, I’ll be giving a talk, “Psychic Sophie and the Rise of the Nones,” next week at the European University Institute in Florence. My talk will be sponsored by the Institute’s ReligioWest project. Here’s the abstract: The most important story in . . . . Continue Reading »
The Drive-By Truckers released their fourth studio album in June, 2003—but it seems more fitting to take Memorial Day as its tenth anniversary. It is, after all, the modern successor to the Decoration Day from which the album and title track draw their names. The songs, frontman Patterson Hood . . . . Continue Reading »
BIG THOUGHTS FINALLY HERE (Link fixed, thanks Sara) . . . . Continue Reading »
A cheering story: The Atheist Orthodoxy That Drove Me to Faith . “Faith is something my generation is meant to be casting aside, not taking up,” writes Megan Hodder, writing in the English weekly The Catholic Herald . I was raised without any religion and was eight . . . . Continue Reading »
While drinking my third cup of coffee, and reading all this talk of heroin and Charlie Parker, I got to thinking of James Baldwin’s beautiful short story “Sonny’s Blues” (1958). Around the same time that certain Beats were extolling the subconscious primitive impulses of . . . . Continue Reading »
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