This week in New York, the “One Faith: East and West” art exhibition is at the Catholic Center of NYU, after stops in Beijing and Moscow. The exhibition is a concrete expression of Christian unity, and the artists are from several different countries and confessions: Roman and Byzantine . . . . Continue Reading »
Quinn Hillyer at National Review is calling the anticipated change in the U.S. $10 note “outrageous and ignorant.” The change entails removal of Alexander Hamilton’s portrait for that of an as yet unnamed woman. It’s not the woman that arouses Hillyer’s unhappiness, but the removal of his . . . . Continue Reading »
Clarence Thomas Takes on a Symbol of White Supremacy
Garrett Epps, The Atlantic
The Rise and Fall of New York City's Private Social Clubs
James Nevius, Curbed
Where Christianity Ends
Ross Douthat, New York Times
A Former Fecundophobe’s Reflections On Fatherhood
Matthew Cochran, The Federalist
Already a victim of someone else’s hate, forgiveness frees you from being a victim of your own hate. This allows the victims to pursue justice with a clear conscience.
A horrible tragedy occurred earlier this week, when a young white male walked into Emanuel A.M.E. church in historic Charleston, South Carolina, and killed nine congregation members. Unfortunately, many common responses to the massacre threaten to undermine efforts to seek real, substantive . . . . Continue Reading »
A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power by jimmy carter simon & schuster, 224 pages, $16 This book, Jimmy Carter’s latest, reads with all the intensity of a lullaby to liberal orthodoxy. Presenting a sympathetic face to the myriad forms of suffering that women experience in the . . . . Continue Reading »
Pope Francis Wants to Roll Back Progress. Is the World Ready?
Matthew Schmitz, Washington Post
The Real Lesson of the Stanford Prison Experiment
Maria Konnikova, New Yorker
Treasure in Heaven
Peter Brown, Lapham's Quarterly
Ditch the Summer Reading List
Stephanie Cohen, Acculturated
The Trouble with Gay Marriage
Brendan O'Neill, Spiked!
(With thanks to our reader Katherine for the tip!)
I picked up Laura Moriarty’s The Chaperone (2012) because I am a sucker for novels about flappers and because I am a sucker generally. In the summer of 1922, fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks (real personage) takes a train from Wichita to New York, there to study modern dance with Denishawn (real dance troupe). She is chaperoned by Mrs. Cora Carlisle (fictional personage), the not-quite-middle-aged wife of a wealthy Wichitan attorney. Cora has ulterior reasons for making this trip:
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The Federal Reserve recently announced that the $10 dollar bill is getting a redesign: the founder of the treasury, Alexander Hamilton, is going to be replaced by a woman.The lucky (though deceased) lady has not yet been determined, and the Treasury is asking the public for input. Therefore I would . . . . Continue Reading »
Ran 7,000 Miles. Putin Still Got Them
Michael Weiss, Daily Beast
Witless Ape Rides Escalator
Kevin D. Williamson, National Review
The End of the Sex Abuse Crisis
Ross Douthat, New York Times
Benedict Option Baptists
Rod Dreher, The American Conservative
Daily Cartoon
Christopher Weyant, The New Yorker
Pope Francis Wants to Roll Back Modernity: Is the World Ready?
Matthew Schmitz, Washington Post
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