Will it be single-payer? If conservatives don’t offer a viable alternative using incremental changes, single-payer is what we will (eventually) get. Yuval Levin and Ramesh Ponnuru point conservatives in the direction of the reforms we need. And from now a word . . . . Continue Reading »
Nancy Pelosi was just as bad as you’ve heard on Meet The Press . There was her determined denial of the obvious (that Obamacare had led to the cancellation of insurance policies for millions). There was her declaration of utter ruthlessness in pursuit of the passage of Obamacare (“If we . . . . Continue Reading »
Happy Monday! I hope everybody had a good weekend. Here’s some of what we had for you read over the weekend: At Postmodern Conservative , Carl Scott is a voice connoisseur and Peter Lawler thinks the brave new world isn’t coming. A selection of Peter Leithart’s posts: more on N. . . . . Continue Reading »
So the big question for my TECHNOLOGY class this week is whether the book (and the idea) of THE BRAVE NEW WORLD is likely right about the chief danger facing us in our increasingly biotechnological future. Ben Storey, a student of Leon Kass, told us last week at Berry College that Leon thinks . . . . Continue Reading »
Aquinas and Natural Science James Chastek, Just Thomism Bring Them In: On Prisons and the Poor Sen. Mike Lee We Believe in Institutions James K. A. Smith, Comment Three Kinds of Hope Stratford Caldecott, Imaginative Conservative Lewis Joins Poet’s Corner Iona McLaren, Telegraph . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week, my attention was brought to three things, sure and certain signs of this present age. The first was the baby suit above, which bears the legend “Future Porn Star.” I assume this is an attempt at humor; but it is interesting what passes for a fashionably marketable joke . . . . Continue Reading »
Would it be Grace Kelly? Audrey Hepburn? Ingrid Bergman? Cate Blanchett? Helena Bonham Carter? I tend to forget actresses’ and actors’ names unless I see them in five or more films, so even though I’ve seen plenty from Hollywood’s Golden Era and thus vaguely remember a lot of . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s the title of a lecture the Witherspoon Institute is very proud to sponsor, this Tuesday, November 19, at 4:30 p.m. on the Princeton University campus (co-sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions). It’s the first in a new annual lecture . . . . Continue Reading »
Now it’s really Friday. Before you shuffle off into parts unknown, take a look at what we wrote for you today: Over at Postmodern Conservative , Pete Spiliakos gets into the headline game. Peter Leithart continues to think about Exodus and read the Times Literary Supplement . On the Square . . . . Continue Reading »
New York Events: Forming the Artist Saturday, November 16 This third installment of the “The Art of the Beautiful” lecture series will be given by David Clayton, Artist-in-Residence and lecturer at Thomas More College. Thanks to the Catholic Artists Society and the Thomistic Institute for . . . . Continue Reading »
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