Chris Christie came to the Conservative Political Action Conference in DC last week with a self-serving message. The Republican Party has a communications problem, one that can only be solved by a new communicator, one a lot like Chris Christie. What Christie doesn’t get is how deep a problem . . . . Continue Reading »
Admirers of HBO’s True Detective had been expecting, in advance of its Finale, that Season One would stick its landing. Being a self-contained story arc, the True Detective season had an opportunity to avoid the hazards that beset other prestige dramas, which are conceived without . . . . Continue Reading »
Monastic popes and a cartoonish “Cosmos”. Continue Reading »
I haven’t seen every speech at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, but... 1. Mike Lee is not a stirring speaker but he gave a noble speech. He respected the delegates enough to avoid flattering them. He challenged the delegates to go from the politics of . . . . Continue Reading »
What Dostoevsky knew about the internet, nudges and human agency, and more daily articles of interest. Continue Reading »
Post-Catholic Ireland, post-communist Lutheranism. Continue Reading »
The three Rs of the Magisterial Protestants. Continue Reading »
Inside the cloister, the moral tragedy of Sweeney Todd, and more daily articles of interest. Continue Reading »
Greg: Charles Taylor believes humans are naturally ordered toward the good, which means they will always feel a religious impulse. Yet partly due to the influence of what he calls “Reform” he believes the social imaginary has become so secularized that our fundamental religious impulse . . . . Continue Reading »
If love is not reducible to mere emotion, there is nevertheless a substantial emotional component to it. Continue Reading »
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