Teaching China’s Anglophiles Eliza Filby, Standpoint The Devil You Know: Why Readers Love ‘Screwtape’ Casey N. Cep, New Yorker When a Child Is a Second Chance Eve Tushnet, Acculturated Three Books on Evangelicals and Intellectuals Marvin Olasky, World Intellectual Courage and the . . . . Continue Reading »
Whenever someone you don’t really know tells you that you must not do such and such, it often provokes a desire to do that very same such and such. It’s like an itch on a random body-spot that must needs scratching. You try to overcome such a base urge, but scratching it is only solution . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s Wednesday! What happened to Tuesday, you ask? Well, Tuesday was canceled. Perhaps next week we’ll have two Tuesdays . At Postmodern Conservative , the apparent Japanese disdain for sex, written on by Peter Lawler elsewhere , is disputed by Carl. Lawler responds here . (A concerned . . . . Continue Reading »
Since some of our writers have been taking up the great theme related to the “end of history,” it might be foolish to think that any of the details in the news over the past few weeks—the government shutdown, the debt crisis crisis, the Obama care website—have any lasting . . . . Continue Reading »
Everything is just peachy-keen: Yeah, that’s one of the ads Colorado Democrats, oh, I’m so sorry, Colorado bureaucrats , are using to peddle Obamacare sign-ups. H/T Ricochet—their post, Idiocracy Has Arrived , has a link to the official website if you can stomach it. No, . . . . Continue Reading »
This is the sort of thing The Onion should be covering, but there it was today at Inside Higher Ed , a story titled ” Ignoring the Pope? ” Faculty at two Catholic colleges in California are upset that their administrations have dropped coverage for elective abortions from the . . . . Continue Reading »
Unusable Words Brad Leithauser, New Yorker John Gray and the Politics of Grace Will McDavid, Mockingbird Evangelical Leader Preaches Pullback Neil King Jr., Wall Street Journal Why Is Faith Not a Work? Matthew Barrett, Gospel Coalition Journalists: Please Look Up ‘Fetus’ Terry . . . . Continue Reading »
Passing through security at Atlanta Airport on Saturday, I was surprised to be called aside by the agent for a hand search of my luggage. The x-ray machine had apparently alerted him to the presence of what looked like (and I quote) ‘an electronic cigarette’ in my jacket. On . . . . Continue Reading »
William Faulkner’s novels are notoriously difficult to adapt into films. Even with techniques such as flashbacks and advanced editing, Faulkner’s stream of consciousness narratives, especially the masterpiece exempla of The Sound and the Fury and Absalom! Absalom!, are labyrinthine at . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, I agree with Carl that the data in the study about the Japanese aversion to sex is suspect. On the other hand: What I say doesn’t really depend on the data so much. The phrase “celibacy syndrome” is the translation of a malady that was identified by the Japanese media, not . . . . Continue Reading »
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