Church History, Not Parochial Mark Noll, Books & Culture America’s Best-Paid Fairy Tale Writer John Gray, New Republic ‘Now and Then I Feel It’s Working’ J. Peter Nixon, Commonweal Whither Oliver O’Donovan? James K. A. Smith, Scribd You Know What’s Funny? . . . . Continue Reading »
Bill Gates says art is evil. Terry Teachout says Bill Gates is a barbarian. Jay Greene agrees , and he has the data to prove it. In support of his view that art is evil, Gates cites the utilitarian philosophy of Peter Singer, who openly favors infanticide. I believe it was Hans Urs von . . . . Continue Reading »
Amity Shlaes, author of a fine book on FDR and the Depression, The Forgotten Man , and a biography of Calvin Coolidge I haven’t gotten to yet, has a long and quite educational review of Scott Berg’s new biography of Woodrow Wilson over at The National Interest . I had my suspicions about . . . . Continue Reading »
Excellent advice for pastors, and for the rest of us: Paul Levy writing on Reformation 21 on When Your World Caves in , writing in response to two pastor friends who’d “fallen morally” and lost their positions and families. For example: Online life is a killer . This isn’t . . . . Continue Reading »
The Fall, 2013 issue of Leadership Journal has an article by Stanton Jones up entitled, ” Help, I’m Gay .” It is billed as “A pastoral conversation about same-sex attraction.” The editors chose to illustrate the article with the picture at left. This would . . . . Continue Reading »
Happy Friday! As we head toward the weekend, and inch toward Thanksgiving, here’s some reading for you: Over at Postmodern Conservative , Pete Spiliakos is in favor of the filibuster rule change. Maureen Mullarkey takes on “art in drag” (as science). Today, Peter Leithart is . . . . Continue Reading »
Members of the Society of St. Pius X have distinguished themselves by disrupting a service commemorating Kristallnacht, a service held in the cathedral in Buenos Aires and previously hosted by the man who is now pope. The service they declared a “profanation” because a rabbi was leading . . . . Continue Reading »
Three notable men died on this date fifty years ago. Most of the attention on this anniversary belongs to John F. Kennedy, assassinated in Dallas by a lone communist (somehow it is necessary to use both the adjective and the noun to quash various conspiracy theories). A strong . . . . Continue Reading »
Spain’s History Wars Filipe Fernández-Arnesto, Times Literary Supplement Kennedy’s Ambiguities Kenneth L. Woodward, Tablet Aztec Political Thought Xavier Marquez, Abandoned Footnotes Lewis the Imaginative Man Laura C. Mallonee, Poetry Foundation Hymns for . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m all for it. Given the recent polarization of the two parties, coherent policy can now only be made during rare moments of overwhelming control by one party. The rest of the time, policy either gets made by inertia (the expiration of the Bush tax cuts on the highest earners) or else you . . . . Continue Reading »
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