Carl’s Rock Songbook is a series focusing on a particular rock song or issue connected to rock music. In the course of my learning the Gen-X alternative rock catechism, perhaps it was when I was reading an issue of Spin magazine sometime in the 80s, I was told that the release of The . . . . Continue Reading »
The haunted secular, the emerging genre of the review review, and more daily articles of interest. Continue Reading »
The post-1960 wave of immigration didn’t save Detroit, but would we have been better off if the government told immigrants what cities they could live in? Continue Reading »
Hello, First Thoughtsters! One of the things I’ll be carrying over from my blogging for Postmodern Conservative, now that it’s been incorporated into First Thoughts, is “Carl’s Rock Songbook.”What is the Rock Songbook?It is a series of posts, each of which focuses on a . . . . Continue Reading »
Two events in the coming days, one in New York and one in Texas Continue Reading »
Here’s a great piece by the Week’s Michael Brendan Dougherty on the persecution of Mideast Christians. Doughtery offers an explanation for why the human rights community in the West is largely ignoring the problem: Western activists and media have focused considerable outrage at . . . . Continue Reading »
NPR reports that a Swiss company is one of several firms offering the bereaved the chance to transform their loved ones’ ashen remains into diamonds as postmortem keepsakes. In three months’ time, using the standard industrial techniques to create synthetic diamonds, the company . . . . Continue Reading »
Surprising colonial missionaries, monks in Kiev street battles, and more daily articles of interest. Continue Reading »
Over on twitter, Sean Trende points out that since 2000, in forty-nine competitive Senate races, the Republican Senate candidate has run ahead of the Republican presidential candidate in only fourteen. The astute Dan McLaughlin wrote that this was a “staggering indictment” of the . . . . Continue Reading »
There’s no simple “fix” for marriage. . . . Continue Reading »
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