Celebrities don’t surprise me often. Big-name actors and musicians all tend to think, talk, and act alike. They aren’t all Lindsay Lohan, but they all seem to fall somewhere on the continuum of which she is merely an extreme. This week, however, Ashton Kutcher, of all people, surprised . . . . Continue Reading »
On this Feast of the Assumption, we bring you not one, not two, but three On the Square columns! In his piece for today’s On the Square , Russell E. Saltzman takes on that most famous (and most famously incorrect) of opening sentences: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve been trying to avoid thinking about the next presidential election but . . . 1. It will be tough for a guy who supports a tax increase on middle-class parents to go distance with the Republican nominating electorate. I don’t think that is what the median Republican voter . . . . Continue Reading »
Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) was defeated yesterday in his bid for re-election. In his place, the ELCA has elected its first female presiding bishop: Bishop Elizabeth Eaton of the Northeastern Ohio Synod. The election went to a fifth ballot, the . . . . Continue Reading »
The Drone Philosopher Marco Roth, n+1 Straussian Alienation and History Claes G. Ryn, Epistulae The Ethics of Favoritism Stephen T. Asma, Fortnightly Review Diocese Bans Funeral Eulogies to Avoid “Dumbing Down” BBC Imitation, Biography, and Moral Formation in Early Christianity Benjamin . . . . Continue Reading »
For FT readers in the area, I’ll be participating next week in the biannual conference of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies, being held this year at the University of Virginia Law School. I’ll present a paper, “Psychic Sophie and the Rise of the Nones.” . . . . Continue Reading »
So the consensus—reflected, for example, in Larry Sabato’s sensible CRYSTAL BALL—is that there are two top-tier Republican presidential candidates. They’re mentioned above. The takeaway I get when reading this or that analysis is the difficulty of any other candidate being . . . . Continue Reading »
Baseball Crank has a terrific set of rules for running for president as a Republican. Even if you paren’t planning to run for president, his rules are a pretty good way of looking at politics. My personal favorite is: 17-Never assume the voters are stupid or foolish, but also . . . . Continue Reading »
At the Center for Law and Religion Forum today, Professor Perry Dane has a response to my post last week on the controversy surrounding the re-interment of Richard III . Dane thinks the debate about whether Richard should receive a Catholic burial reflects more profound concerns about the meaning . . . . Continue Reading »
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