Reclaiming “Homemaker”
Ester Bloom, Slate
Santa Claus as Rahe Hai
Srinath Perur, n+1
An Introduction to Evelyn Waugh’s Helena
Lawrence Dugan, Anamnesis
The Concrete Abyss
Lisa Guenther, Aeon
How Barack Obama Sold Out the Kale Crowd
Jason Zengerle, the New Republic
Great article by Sabrina Schaeffer in Forbes. The most important lines are:A central tenet of political behavior research is that public opinion can be massively influenced by elite discourse, especially if elite opinion is all coming from one side . . . huge shift in opinion, across the . . . . Continue Reading »
The Holy Grail has recently been discovered—“again,” as one news article put it. What’s with the fascination surrounding the cup used at the Last Supper? And are we missing the real miracle that took place that night? Continue Reading »
Sacrament of Fiction: On Becoming a Writer and Not a Priest
Nick Ripatrazone, the Millions
Paul Ryan’s Inner City Education
McCay Coppins, Buzzfeed
The Man Who Would Make Eating Obsolete
Roc Morin, the Atlantic
Marxists and Monarchists Unite
Daniel Schwindt, Ethika Politika
Conservative Internationalism
Henry R. Nau, the American Interest
Yesterday, Professor Brian Leiter (Chicago) responded to my earlier post on religion’s social goods. I appreciate the response, actually, and I’ll leave it to readers to evaluate his post and mine. On one point, though, I think I should respond.Leiter writes that I presented no evidence . . . . Continue Reading »
The recent release of Switchfoot’s new project Fading West led to more questions for lead singer Jon Foreman on how his band can be Christian when its songs lack explicit Christian content. Foreman’s answer has basically remained that his songs are Christian because they are deeply . . . . Continue Reading »
Philadelphia Magazine has published a story about my beloved alma mater Swarthmore College that is so depressing I could almost not bear to read it. What it reveals about the sexual anarchy of campus culture is, however, by no means unique to Swarthmore. My students at Princeton and Harvard describe the same culture at those institutions. I suspect that it exists at all institutions, save, perhaps, the comparatively few which have maintained strong religious identities. It is unfathomably sad. Continue Reading »
No, Sarah Palin, Baptism Isn’t a Good Punchline for a Terrorist Joke
Mollie Hemingway, the Federalist
Steatite Icons and Material Symbolism
Jonathan Pageau, Orthodox Arts Journal
What’s At Stake in the Tocqueville/Piketty Debate
James Poulos, the Daily Beast
The Pope’s Phone Call
Ross Douthat, the New York Times
Hideous Strength: “Degenerate Art” at the Neue Galerie
Eve Tushnet, the American Conservative
It used to be the case that Americans referred unselfconsciously to their country as “a Christian nation.” The phrase had multiple meanings. A few speakers, no doubt, used it as a taunt: Non-Christians (which, for many, would have meant non-Protestants) should keep quiet or get out. Others used the phrase to indicate that Christianity, in a general way, informed American law and government. That’s what Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story meant, for example, when he wrote that Christianity was part of the common law. Still others used the phrase in a theological sense: America was the New Zion, Chosen of God. Continue Reading »
The story of a female throuple in Massachusetts (with a baby on the way) provides further confirmation, as if any were needed, of the proposition that “ideas have consequences.” Once one has abandoned belief in marriage as a conjugal bond (with its central structuring norm of sexual complementarity) in favor of a concept of “marriage” as a form of sexual-romantic companionship or domestic partnership (“love makes a family”), then what possible principle could be identified for a norm “restricting” marriage to two-person partnerships, as opposed to polyamorous sexual ensembles of three or more persons? Continue Reading »
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