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Prep Notes from NRO’s Ed Whelan

So tomorrow, word has it, the Supreme Court will release it’s decision in the cases concerning Prop 8 and DOMA. I.e., tomorrow we will get a same-sex-marriage ruling. Now the import of the decisions will depend on the cases, and so to understand them well, so as to avoid saying something . . . . Continue Reading »

We Need Our Own Macklemore

Macklemore’s pro-same-sex-marriage rap video is “quite masterful, actually . . . ” says R. J. Snell in today’s column , “beautifully produced, skillfully managed, and positioned within a moving narrative of birth, death, and love; it is, I suspect, devastatingly . . . . Continue Reading »

Richard Dawkins’ Ersatz Atheist Liturgy

At the five-minute mark of this video, we see a sort of ersatz secular liturgy done with all the intelligence of Richard Dawkins and all the taste of Charles Saatchi. Next time your church music director’s choices tempt you to atheism, remember the sort of liturgy that awaits you on the other . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 6.25.13

Therapeutists and Evil Theodore Dalrymple, Library of Law & Liberty Prisons and Our Faltering Belief in Second Chances Shadd Maruna, Wilson Quarterly The Supreme Court and Affirmative Action: A Debate Jeffrey Rosen and Michael McConnell, New Republic East Meets West: Asceticism and Consumerism . . . . Continue Reading »

Two Critical Assessments of the AAAS Report

I’m speaking of the just-issued The American Academy of Arts and Sciences report on the humanities in higher ed, the Heart of the Matter , released with snazzy blurb-testimonials to The Importance of the Humanities from George Lucas and others, and a NYT column by David Brooks. Brooks’s . . . . Continue Reading »

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