Matthew Schmitz has a remembrance of French New Wave director Eric Rohmer : Among the best known of Rohmer’s films are his Six Moral Tales, movies imbued with delicate longing and keen moral awareness in which characters struggle to come to terms with their duties and desires. It’s easy . . . . Continue Reading »
So I keep reading that America is exceptional. That’s not surprising. And that unexceptional fact is both good and bad. 1. Tocqueville finds both religious madness and an insane materialistic restlessness in America. The French have pretty much stayed with that criticism, still viewing us as . . . . Continue Reading »
The big brained types who either believe global warming is a real threat—or who used a warming trend as a means of grabbing power, promoting careers, scoring grants, internationalizing governance, or a combination of the above—want to impose wrenching and economy-wounding policies on the . . . . Continue Reading »
So the Vatican’s chief exorcist insists that the joint is demon-possessed . Father Gabriele Amorth, 85, who has been the Vatican’s chief exorcist for 25 years and says he has dealt with 70,000 cases of demonic possession, said that the consequences of satanic infiltration included power . . . . Continue Reading »
“I think I’ve wasted your time. I think this is the first time I have wasted an hour of your time and I apologize for that.” — Glenn Beck apologizes for his interview with former Congressman Massa. “Yes, it’s true that you may like strawberry ice cream more than . . . . Continue Reading »
On Tuesday I mentioned Mary Eberstadt’s new book The Loser Letters . On Tuesday, March 16, she’ll be discussing her new work at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.: Eberstadt will discuss the two levels on which this satire operates, one religious and one . . . . Continue Reading »
From the Extreme Theology blog: I’ve been hosting my radio program for almost 2 years. One of the daily features of my program are the sermon reviews. Each week I review 3 to 4 sermons from seeker-driven / purpose-driven churches. I review them in their entirety and am generally mortified and . . . . Continue Reading »
Can a computer program produce classical music compositions that rival the works of Bach or Mozart? Emmy was once the world’s most advanced artificially intelligent composer, and because he’d managed to breathe a sort of life into her, he became a modern-day musical Dr. Frankenstein. She . . . . Continue Reading »
So I’ve written before about the ClimateGate scandal here as symptomatic of technocratic elitism or the current trend to exhaust all political experience and judgment into the categories of modern science. In other words, the problem is unrestrained scientism , or the view that science has a . . . . Continue Reading »
Matthew Scully’s nasty review—and my reply thereto—continues to bounce around at National Review. Yesterday, over at The Corner, Jason Steorts wondered where we differed on principle, and offered an opportunity for both of us to clarify our positions. Scully . . . . Continue Reading »
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