Last week, my attention was brought to three things, sure and certain signs of this present age. The first was the baby suit above, which bears the legend “Future Porn Star.” I assume this is an attempt at humor; but it is interesting what passes for a fashionably marketable joke . . . . Continue Reading »
Would it be Grace Kelly? Audrey Hepburn? Ingrid Bergman? Cate Blanchett? Helena Bonham Carter? I tend to forget actresses’ and actors’ names unless I see them in five or more films, so even though I’ve seen plenty from Hollywood’s Golden Era and thus vaguely remember a lot of . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s the title of a lecture the Witherspoon Institute is very proud to sponsor, this Tuesday, November 19, at 4:30 p.m. on the Princeton University campus (co-sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions). It’s the first in a new annual lecture . . . . Continue Reading »
Now it’s really Friday. Before you shuffle off into parts unknown, take a look at what we wrote for you today: Over at Postmodern Conservative , Pete Spiliakos gets into the headline game. Peter Leithart continues to think about Exodus and read the Times Literary Supplement . On the Square . . . . Continue Reading »
New York Events: Forming the Artist Saturday, November 16 This third installment of the “The Art of the Beautiful” lecture series will be given by David Clayton, Artist-in-Residence and lecturer at Thomas More College. Thanks to the Catholic Artists Society and the Thomistic Institute for . . . . Continue Reading »
Mill and Cannabis Peter Hitchens, ABC Religion & Ethics The Least Known Masterpiece of European Literature Adam Kirsch, New Republic Lou Reed and the Iconography of Rock and Roll Ethan McCarthy, Christ and Pop Culture TOMS Shoes and the Spiritual Politics of Neoliberalism Lucia Hulsether, . . . . Continue Reading »
Poking around on the internet, I see a lot of articles whose headlines are some variation of: President Proposes “Administrative Fix” To His Health Care Law But reading Megan McArdle, I wonder if the articles would give a better sense of the situation if they were written as: President . . . . Continue Reading »
Yet another Thursday where I completed the whole day before realizing that it was not Friday has gone by, and here’s some stuff for you to read: Over at Postmodern Conservative , Pete Spiliakos thinks about what it will take for Hillary Clinton to become President , Carl Scott refuses to tie . . . . Continue Reading »
So here are a couple of books that just came out: Pope Benedict XVI and the Politics of Modernity (Routledge), edited by Marc Guerra—America’s greatest theologian. It includes a long chapter by me on the Christian view of personal logos, marriage, and other elements of rat choice . . . . Continue Reading »
Another good point Veronique de Rugy made on NRO was that . . . these constant changes in the law . . . inject a lot of uncertainties in an already uncertain environment. . . . The law says one thing, and the government does another. If I were an insurance company, I would seriously wonder what . . . . Continue Reading »
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