Obamacare’s problems have taken a toll on the president’s job approval numbers. What is worse is that President Obama’s poll numbers are sinking even though the stock market is hitting new highs and the job market is slowly healing. Even the economy stays on the same path (or a . . . . Continue Reading »
The Catholic bishops of the United States have vowed to continue to resist the HHS Mandate, which forces Catholics and others to violate their consciences regarding grave issues of the human person and human life by requiring coverage of abortifacients, sterilization, and contraceptives. Rocco . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s Wednesday! Here’s some stuff for you to read: Peter Lawler has a quiz over at Postmodern Conservative : your choices are TRUE, FALSE, or ESSAY. Peter Leithart has a post on Exodus and also a post on mimesis : “Are any of these [societal] roles me, or am I someone else who . . . . Continue Reading »
Is each of the following TRUE or FALSE? If you waffle, explain yourself with an essay. 1. I got this off the FACEBOOK rambles of disgruntled ex-conservative Bruce Bartlett, who spends his day calling attention to the many ways, in his view, Republicans are moralistic morons. (He’s not always . . . . Continue Reading »
Christopher Lasch, where are we when we need you? Today’s Wall Street Journal has a good column by William Galston that lays out in clear terms what we all feel in our bones: The great middle-class consensus that once dominated our society is dissolving. The middle class is eroding down . . . . Continue Reading »
The annual conference on Christian Legal Thought, co-sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute and the Law Professors Christian Fellowship, will take place in New York next year on January 3. This year’s theme is the work of the late Jean Bethke Elshtain. Details, including a link for . . . . Continue Reading »
Hunting in Medieval Literature Katherine Correa, Medievalists.net Find the Bad Guy Jeffrey Eugenides, New Yorker Oh Good Grief! Sarah Hinlicky Wilson, Books & Culture How the Left Spun the Kennedy Myth Ira Stoll, Book Beast United Methodists, Pessimism, and God’s Surprises Mark Tooley, . . . . Continue Reading »
Hello! It’s Tuesday. Did you have a nice long weekend? Did you even have a long weekend? (If you are a veteran, I hope you did.) Over at Postmodern Conservative, Carl Scott watched 12 Years a Slave (spoilers: he liked it), and has some thoughts about the film and Walker Percy. Pete Spiliakos . . . . Continue Reading »
My favorite symbolic scene in 12 YEARS A SLAVE is when Solomon Northup plays his fiddle at a white dance party in the South. It calls to memory his earlier having done so as a free black in the North. Whereas the northern party was an open, coy, and perfectly natural linking of erotic interest with . . . . Continue Reading »
So I know you haven’t missed me. But I’ve been really sick with a virus or food poisoning or something. Plus I went on a complicated road trip for the first time for a while, visiting Provo and Salt Lake City on behalf or our Ralph’s John Adams Center. Here’s one point that . . . . Continue Reading »
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