Inspired by this photo spread from Seventeen magazine: 1. Blistered Red: This look is really what we as an industry are all about: ensuring that, like sex, beauty involves as much suffering and humiliation as possible. Once you have a stranger rip hot wax off your legs, eyebrows, and . . . . Continue Reading »
Want to ask Facebook about your Daughter’s Binky? Go Ahead
Elissa Strauss, The Week
CUNY: Don’t Address Students as Mr. or Ms.
Mike Vilensky, The Wall Street Journal
‘Summa’ 2.0
Holly Taylor Coolman, America
Little Eucharist
Phillip T. Egelston, Rattle
The Obama administration dropped its call for taxes on 529 college savings plans. These are tax-preferred savings vehicles that allow families to put away money to pay for Junior’s college expenses when the time comes. The outcry against this proposal was not surprising, and it makes no sense to undermine the program. Continue Reading »
Today is the observance of International Holocaust Memorial Day. Continue Reading »
Two weeks ago, I reported on a poll by Scholastic demonstrating the importance of parents reading aloud to their children well past the age that children can read on their own. There is another aspect to the poll worth mentioning, and it’s backed up by what adolescents say about reading. Continue Reading »
We can tell ourselves that the conflict is temporary and superficial, that other civilizations are moving inexorably toward our understanding. But the clash is profound and perduring. Continue Reading »
Europe: Too Old for its own Truths and Victories?
Rémi Brague, The Clarion Review
When Artists Fear their Audience
Franklin Einspruch, City Journal
Poetry and Despotism in Iran
Mosaic Magazine
Small is Bountiful
Tim Wu, The New Yorker
How I Pray: Sr. Mary Catharine Perry, O.P.
Thomas L. McDonald, Patheos
3 Types of Fundamentalists and Evangelicals After 1956
Justin Taylor, The Gospel Coalition
How a Year in Auschwitz Helped Me Grow
Emily Herlyn, The Jewish Daily
Two days ago, the annual West Coast March for Life took place in downtown San Francisco, with more than 30,000 people waving “I AM the PRO-LIFE GENERATION” signs as they filed into Civic Center Plaza. A local news story covered the event, which was peaceful and solemn, in part because “the Walk for Life organizers publicized a code of conduct for participants, advising them to never speak to, look at, stare at, threaten or get close to protesters.” Continue Reading »
The notion that women are rabbitlike “breeders” who should produce as many children as possible is harmful and false—as is the common assumption that this idea originated in Christian circles. In fact, it has secular origins in the eighteenth century Enlightenment. Continue Reading »
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