So says the critic Joe Queenan in the Guardian (via Arts & Letters Daily ). After 40 years and 1500 concerts, Queenan doesn’t think much of the taste of the average concert-goer, but he also doesn’t like much of contemporary composition either. When beauty, order, and meaning have been . . . . Continue Reading »
By now you have either seen or heard about the cover of the latest issue of the New Yorker . Barack Obama is depicted in Middle Eastern dress, and his wife Michelle carries an automatic rifle. From all quarters, including the Obama campaign, objections that the whole thing is scurrilous have been . . . . Continue Reading »
We’ve mentioned before news that some conservative Anglicans have been in talks about entering the Roman Catholic Church en masse. Now, conflicting reports are coming from the UK. The Independent runs with this headline: ” Pope rides to Rowan’s rescue. Exclusive: Vatican shuns . . . . Continue Reading »
Judge Bork has an excellent essay on the judicial usurpation of politics in the June issue of The American Spectator. Referring to how activist judges have enshrined in constitutional law their particular policy preferences, he argues that “the aristocracy that the anti-Federalists feared has . . . . Continue Reading »
Readers of First Things will be interested in this book by FT-contributor Frank Beckwith: . . . . Continue Reading »
Today in the Wall Street Journal William McGurn writes on the growing number of African-American pro-lifers, many of whom are alarmed at the disproportionate number of abortions in the black community: A fact sheet from the Guttmacher Institute puts it this way: “Black women are 4.8 times as . . . . Continue Reading »
At the Papal Youth Rally back in April, my colleague Amanda Shaw and I managed to sneak into the press section. We dodged the Secret Service in part by being interviewed by some folks from Sirius Satellite Radio’s The Catholic Channel who were on hand to cover the event, and in part by their . . . . Continue Reading »
Via the Wall Street Journal ‘s law blog comes this notice of a case involving a housing dispute in Chicago. I can’t decide the legal issues involved, which center on the question of whether or not the plaintiffs’ action is moot, but Judge Diane Wood’s dissent seems . . . . Continue Reading »
In yesterday’s Washington Post , Michael Benson suggests sending the space station to orbit the moon—or even beyond. It’s easier than it looks, he argues, for, technically, the ISS is already an interplanetary vehicle. Well, maybe. I’d rather we concentrated our space . . . . Continue Reading »
Ezra Levant is the Canadian who, while he was publisher of the Western Standard , printed some of the Danish cartoons that depicted Muhammad—and then got hauled before the Canadian human-rights commissions, accused of crimes of insensitivity. (Levant’s case, along with that of the . . . . Continue Reading »
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