The Hopes Invested In Rubio Were Always Excessive

by Pete Spiliakos

On The Square Today. . . . . Continue Reading »

12 Dec 2013 0

Blog Roundup: Pop Culture, MSNBC, and Vestigial Organs

by B. D. McClay

Happy Thursday! Here’s what we have for you to read: Over at Postmodern Conservative , Carl Scott thinks about Terry Teachout’s criticism of pop culture writing, and Pete Spiliakos analyzes the House That Olbermann Built. Peter Leithart is reading about: rebellious thumbs, sex in . . . . Continue Reading »

12 Dec 2013 0

Kevin Williamson on Why Obama Deserves Impeachment

by Carl Scott

Understandably, a lot of you don’t want to talk impeachment. You perhaps say, “Is it good strategy for Republicans?” And the answer, delivered after a micro-second’s of the mind running back to the Clintonian Age, is of course NO. But sorry, if that is your thought process, you . . . . Continue Reading »

12 Dec 2013 0

Bold Atheism?

by Joseph Knippenberg

Jennifer Michael Hecht laments the fact that so few current public officeholders—-by one count, only five—-have professed their lack of faith. Indeed, it’s almost a mystery to her why more haven’t. After all, we have—-by her lights, at least—-a long and . . . . Continue Reading »

12 Dec 2013 0

First Links — 12.12.13

by Matthew Cantirino

Copts Gain Rights in Charter Jayson Casper, Gleanings The Terrifying First Christmas Matt Emerson, America The Iraqi Jewish Archive: Should the U.S. Send It Back? Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service The Denominational Imperative Peter Berger, American Interest Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics . . . . Continue Reading »

12 Dec 2013 0

The Fruit of Wisdom

by Phillip Cary

I want to think about how “male and female,” a duality essential to the goodness of creation , play an essential role also in the first disobedience in the Garden of Eden. But to do that I need to address a prior question: Why does God command the man not to eat the fruit from the tree of . . . . Continue Reading »

12 Dec 2013 0

Pew’s Pickle (Or, Why the Fundamentalist-Modernist Paradigm No Longer Works)

by Dale M. Coulter

I was recently reminded of the ongoing problems with a historical paradigm that has been with us since the Jazz Age, when fundamentalist Baptists and Presbyterians in largely northern denominations broke with modernist Baptists and Presbyterians. Given this historical paradigm, Protestantism tends . . . . Continue Reading »

12 Dec 2013 0

The Company Man As Liberal Demagogue

by Pete Spiliakos

Charlie Cooke has a good article about the madhouse that is MSNBC. Hardball with Chris Matthews used to a be an interesting show. In earlier incarnations of the show, Matthews was a unapologetic but slightly idiosyncratic liberal host who was not entirely a cheerleader for the liberal side. He had . . . . Continue Reading »

11 Dec 2013 0

Terry Teachout on Overdoing It with Pop Culture

by Carl Scott

Author of the great new Duke Ellington biography Terry Teachout, who’s also the extraordinarily prolific WSJ drama critic and regular blog-reporter on the NYC arts scene, has some good words on not overdoing one’s intake of and praise for pop culture . These thoughts were initially . . . . Continue Reading »

11 Dec 2013 0

Blog Roundup: The EU, the Hagia Sophia, and Outdated Patriarchalist Cryptofascists

by B. D. McClay

Happy Wednesday! Here’s what we have for you today: Peter Leithart is reading: Antonio López’s Gift and the Unity of Being , writing four short posts on the subject, and the Times Literary Supplement’ s article on Shakespeare’s working life. Dr. Boli reads the mail : . . . . Continue Reading »

11 Dec 2013 0