The annual conference on Christian Legal Thought, co-sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute and the Law Professors Christian Fellowship, will take place in New York next year on January 3. This year’s theme is the work of the late Jean Bethke Elshtain. Details, including a link for . . . . Continue Reading »
Hunting in Medieval Literature Katherine Correa, Medievalists.net Find the Bad Guy Jeffrey Eugenides, New Yorker Oh Good Grief! Sarah Hinlicky Wilson, Books & Culture How the Left Spun the Kennedy Myth Ira Stoll, Book Beast United Methodists, Pessimism, and God’s Surprises Mark Tooley, . . . . Continue Reading »
Hello! It’s Tuesday. Did you have a nice long weekend? Did you even have a long weekend? (If you are a veteran, I hope you did.) Over at Postmodern Conservative, Carl Scott watched 12 Years a Slave (spoilers: he liked it), and has some thoughts about the film and Walker Percy. Pete Spiliakos . . . . Continue Reading »
My favorite symbolic scene in 12 YEARS A SLAVE is when Solomon Northup plays his fiddle at a white dance party in the South. It calls to memory his earlier having done so as a free black in the North. Whereas the northern party was an open, coy, and perfectly natural linking of erotic interest with . . . . Continue Reading »
So I know you haven’t missed me. But I’ve been really sick with a virus or food poisoning or something. Plus I went on a complicated road trip for the first time for a while, visiting Provo and Salt Lake City on behalf or our Ralph’s John Adams Center. Here’s one point that . . . . Continue Reading »
Evangelical Crisis of Authority R. Albert Mohler, Jr., Gospel Coalition Atheist Megachurches Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press Tedious Twain David Grylls, New Statesman Monasticism and Marriage Chris Armstrong, Grateful to the Dead The Death of Writing, and Its Impact on Our Politics Chuck Raasch, . . . . Continue Reading »
In his short treatise How to Study Poetry , Plutarch (d. ca. 120) takes a somewhat cautious approach to the form. On the one hand, he commends poetry as providing an introduction to philosophy (in the ancient sense of a quest for wisdom to live a life that flourishes). On the other hand, he . . . . Continue Reading »
For New York area readers: the Crossroads Cultural Center is sponsoring the author of The Pope and the CEO , Andreas Widmer, speaking on Doing Business in a possibly dog-eat-dog world. He’ll be speaking at the American Bible Society (just up Broadway from Columbus Circle) two Fridays hence at . . . . Continue Reading »
Intrepid New York Times reporter Laurie Goodstein has gone out and interviewed seven—-count ‘em, seven!—-individuals, three of them in the same room, each more or less “conservative” in his or her Catholicism, and she found some of them—-not all—-willing to . . . . Continue Reading »
When an experienced columnist makes an argument this bad, it’s hard to judge whether he is disingenuous or just dimwitted. Today’s example is from the Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne , who says that if conservatives were really pro-life, as they claim, they wouldn’t be . . . . Continue Reading »
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