The satire may be a little heavy-handed in an Onion article on the Worldwide Jewish Conspiracy , but it does get at the way some people feel about Jews. Or, as some of them would put it, “the Jews.” (That definite article is important.) Or, at a strategic rhetorical distance, . . . . Continue Reading »
A lovely and imperative meditation on Christmas from America on The Terrifying First Christmas . The First Christmas, we tend to forget, rattles a marriage. It exiles a family. It endangers lives. And it provokes a madman to murder. The brisk descriptions in the New Testament fail to . . . . Continue Reading »
The Constitution’s parts describing impeachment are few—the first two are in Article I, section 3: The House of Representatives . . . . . . shall have the sole Power of Impeachment. . . . The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they . . . . Continue Reading »
Okay, so a little more Breaking Bad blogging. Spoilers ahead. Over at the Atlantic, Chris Heller writes that Ozymandias was the fitting conclusion for Breaking Bad because: Nobody is saved and everybody suffers. That’s the ending Breaking Bad needed. Bleak, merciless, and tragic. I think . . . . Continue Reading »
Happy Friday! Here’s what we have for you as we head into the weekend: Maureen Mullarkey sleeps through sermons . What Peter Leithart is reading about: what Jesus ate, Trojan popes , Levinas , James Bond , Paul Ryan . He’s also still reading N. T. Wright, and Sara Coakley’s God, . . . . Continue Reading »
A few days ago, Terry Teachout had a piece on pop culture writing in the Wall Street Journal —specifically, why there’s so much high-quality pop culture writing, to the apparent exclusion of higher forms of culture. He thinks it indicates a basic frivolity. “It used to be that we . . . . Continue Reading »
New York Events: Beauty and the Real Saturday, December 14 The next installment of the “The Art of the Beautiful” lecture series will be given by Alice Ramos of St. John’s University. Thanks to the Catholic Artists Society and the Thomistic Institute for hosting these wonderful . . . . Continue Reading »
Even casual observers know that Orthodox Churches traditionally have close ties with the state. So many in the West don’t know what to make of the fact that, in the current conflict in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church appears to be siding with the protesters. The New York Times , . . . . Continue Reading »
We Dream of Europe Sophie Pinkham, n+1 Rome: Sex and Freedom Peter Brown, New York Review of Books I Did Not Propose a “Grand Bargain” Peter Steinfels, Human Life Review Time ’s Kantian Wedge Fr. Robert Barron, RealClearReligion Farewell Inisfada George J. Marlin, Catholic Thing . . . . Continue Reading »
Why does the serpent in the Garden of Eden speak to the woman, not the man? Genesis gives us a very strong hint about this, which I explored in an earlier post : The great difference between the man and the woman at this point is that the man has heard the commandment of God first hand, . . . . Continue Reading »
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