Today on Twitter Books & Culture editor John Wilson announced that the magazine faces a $110,000 shortfall it must raise in the next three days—-or shut down at year’s end. [ View the story “Books & Culture Calls for Support, May Shut Down” on Storify ] Books & . . . . Continue Reading »
From what I have seen on my Facebook feed, pretty much any blog or story about how to deal with the demise of the church in this generation is guaranteed to go viral. Whether its cultural relevance, musical style, or social policies, everyone seems to have an opinion . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve been weighing in against what seems to be a wide consensus that America must bomb Syria in order to “punish” or “send a message” or in some way tell the world that using chemical weapons “won’t be tolerated.” It’s a morally suspect way of . . . . Continue Reading »
Christ in the Capital of the World Mark R. Gornik and Maria Liu Wong, Christianity Today Interview with an Enamelist Iconographer Jonathan Pageau and Evgeny Baranov, Orthodox Arts Journal A Francis Confession Boom? John Bingham, Telegraph Paperwork and Power Peter Lopatin, Weekly Standard Lost . . . . Continue Reading »
My selections get even more arbitrary here, because Im both including songs deliberately seeking to revisit or rework the original sound, and ones that, perhaps unintentionally, to my mind evoke it. What is more, my knowledge gets spread more thinly hereIm very spotty on . . . . Continue Reading »
At the Center for Law and Religion Forum today, I interview the Hudson Institute’s Samuel Tadros about his new book, Motherland Lost: The Egyptian and Coptic Quest for Modernity . In the interview, Tadros talks about the history of the Coptic Church, its important contributions to . . . . Continue Reading »
So I spent about an hour listening to John Kerry talking to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about President Obama’s proposed strike. Here are some thoughts: 1. Kerry argued that the refugee crisis from the Syrian civil war was destabilizing Jordan. That strikes me as more of an . . . . Continue Reading »
Jean Yarbrough makes a very apt comment on Powerline , in reference to the recent stories on the obscene and lawless bullying of the entrepreneur who brought Buckyballs to market , and the similar IRS bullying of the True the Vote leader: We need an updated online primer in American government and . . . . Continue Reading »
Hello, good ROFTers! We have no new On the Square posts for you today, but there’s a lot of new content over at our other blogs from this weekend and today, so here’s a roundup of things you may have missed. Over at Postmodern Conservative , Peter Lawler is a skunk , while James Cesar . . . . Continue Reading »