So you’ve now all had time to see MUD. Peter’s reading of it as something of a response to TRUE GRIT, and in dialogue with other films about how The South responds to American Modernity, is a promising and characteristically Lawlerian take. Jeff Nichols does seem just the kind of director . . . . Continue Reading »
So I saw the latest Superman. I wanted to like it, especially after Pete’s enthusiastic recommendation and Ramsey’s eloquently philosophical one in the thread. Too much of the movie is given over to boring fight scenes. It’s just never clear what you have to do to kill someone . . . . Continue Reading »
1. This Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry post did not get enough attention when it came out. It has lots of good stuff. One especially important observation: the GOP’s lack of a middle-class agenda makes it easier for their opponents to portray them as the party of white identity . . . . Continue Reading »
One thing (though far from the only thing) that makes me look forward to Peter Lawler posts is that they often help crystallize my thoughts. Peter writes about talking to the New Atlantis guys about assimilation, but I’m not so worried about assimilation per se. As a general rule, America is . . . . Continue Reading »
A state judge in New Hampshire has ruled against a recently enacted program that would have provided tax credits to businesses that contributed to scholarship organizations similar to those in the Arizona program upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2011. There are a few things about the opinion . . . . Continue Reading »
The Academy of Arts and Sciences published a report and accompanying video offering two justifications for the humanities, says Micah Mattix in today’s column . The humanities are important, first, because they teach students to be “creative” and . . . . Continue Reading »
“My youngest son and I just finished a road trip,” says Peter J. Leithart in today’s column . ”I think it was somewhere between Wisconsin and Minnesota that it began to dawn on me that . . . in, with, and under the teeming diversity, we are one country.” Social . . . . Continue Reading »
Matthew , that 2008 Campbell study is only one in a long line of empirical studies looking at how religious education (and also secular private education) affect tolerance for the rights of others, as well as other democratic values and practices such as voter participation and volunteer work. The . . . . Continue Reading »
So I’ve been away in DC for a few days, mainly on family business. Sorry if I didn’t get to hang out with YOU, but I just didn’t have time. I did get to speak to Yuval for a while. And he and Pete pretty much agree on this immigration thing. Pete, you’ve been noticing, has . . . . Continue Reading »
Recently the Onion , the best fake-news site around, ran a satirical piece entitled “ Nation Currently more Sympathetic to Demise of Planet Krypton than Plight of Syria .” It’s funny because it’s true. It’s also kind of sad. Some people will point to things like this and . . . . Continue Reading »
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