Happy Thursday/Halloween/Reformation Day/All Hallow’s Eve! As junior fellow Sandra Laguerta would like to remind you, tomorrow is a holy day of obligation for Catholics ( get ready ): Tomorrow is the Solemnity of All Saints. It is also a Friday. #DeoGratias for Code 1251 of the Code of Canon . . . . Continue Reading »
A weekend-long International Art Forum on Art and Beauty is to be held this week, November 1-3, at the headquarters of the World Youth Alliance in New York City. Discussion will evolve around the questions: What is beauty? What is the role of beauty in art? Should art always be . . . . Continue Reading »
Religion without God is the late Ronald Dworkins last work, published posthumously in September. Its a short book; a publishers note explains that Dworkin planned to expand the work greatly before he fell ill. Still, the book is important. Not that it says anything . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, speaking of THE VELVET UNDERGROUND and THE VELVET REVOLUTION, we wonder, with Havel, whether political life can be about living in the truth. Pete is probably right about our two real alternatives when it comes to health care. That means, as Capretta explains, our demographic . . . . Continue Reading »
Tiny Houses in Alaska Atlas Obscura Augustine’s Linguistic Turn Jonathan McIntosh, The Flame Imperishable What the Poor Need Most Joe Carter, Acton Institute God Terms Fr. Robert Barron, RealClearReligion Zombies, Vampires, and Things That Come Back to Life Regina Sandler-Phillips, Tablet . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been a keen reader of the works of Terry Eagleton since discovering his various trumpet blasts against the monstrous regiment of postmodernism some twenty years or more ago. I have no sympathy for his Marxism but anyone who can make Lacan and Habermas comprehensible and amusing . . . . Continue Reading »
No, A. Scott Berg, even if you have won a Pulitzer-Prize, even if you are a personality-and-event focused biographer and not an idea-focused one, you do not get a pass when you write an 800-page biography of Woodrow Wilson in the year 2013 to omit any reference whatsoever to the scholarship of . . . . Continue Reading »
On Tuesday, November 5, Kate Mangold, an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York, will be premiering all new work in an exhibit titled We Followed the Red Herring for 10,000 Miles. Mangold began her career as a painter, receiving a Bachelors degree in Fine Arts . . . . Continue Reading »
Happy Wednesday! Here’s what we have for you today. At Postmodern Conservative , James Ceasar talks about lies while Pete Spiliakos recommends that we all go read Mike Lee’s newest speech on the future of conservatism. Peter Leithart is still chugging through Agamben’s book, so . . . . Continue Reading »