Martha Stewart is not happy with the blogosphere. Last week, in an interview with Bloomberg News she griped Who are these bloggers? They’re not trained editors at Vogue magazine. I mean, there are bloggers writing recipes that aren’t tested, that aren’t necessarily very good, or are . . . . Continue Reading »
The History of Secrets S. Lochlann Jain, Public Books Oakeshott on Rome and America Elizabeth Corey, Library of Law & Liberty Christianity Is Not Going Away Mark Tooley, Washington Post Cavemen in Condos Rob Moll, Books & Culture Latest Real Jesus Shakes Christianity to Its Very . . . . Continue Reading »
Henry Olsen has written a fascinating and important article about the voting habits and worldview of the white working-class. Republicans aren’t doing so well with them. Olsen reports that Obama won non-southern whites who earn less than $45,000. Mitt Romney did a mediocre-to-lousy job of . . . . Continue Reading »
Hello, hello—it’s Monday once again, and here we are, and here’s a bunch of reading just for you: At Postmodern Conservative , John Presnall is crying tears of blood, Pete Spiliakos is watching action movies, and Carl Scott has a new political interpretation of the Wizard of Oz. . . . . Continue Reading »
Carl Scott writes about the WSJ Weekend Interview with Stanley Druckenmiller, ” in ” Pay No Attention to that Baby-Boomer behind the Curtain !” I was going to write about that piece in simpler terms. Redistribution does not really go from rich to poor, but from . . . . Continue Reading »
Fr. Maciej Zieba, O.P., the author of the new book Papal Economics: The Catholic Church on Democratic Capitalism, from Rerum Novarum to Caritas in Veritate , is presenting a lecture entitled “The Theory and Practice of Solidarity” here in our New York offices on Wednesday, November 13, . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s the headline of Anne Hendershott’s must-read piece in Crisis magazine on how Catholic schools across the country are overturning their curricula in the name of obedience to the Common Core initiative, which is nominally state-led but whose contents are effectively controlled by . . . . Continue Reading »
The color was startling against the autumn shades of Northeast Ohio; there was just this nubbin of lilac on one of several lilac bushes that bloom like mad things every spring. I had pruned the shrub to control the growth pattern back in June, so maybe that had something to do with . . . . Continue Reading »
On Money Richard Lee and April Koh, Yale Logos The Warm Rain Les Murray & Andrew McCulloch, Times Literary Supplement My Dinner with Irving Wilfred M. McClay, Mosaic The Invention of the American South Nick Ripatrazone, Marginalia Why Have Young People in Japan Stopped Having Sex? Abigail . . . . Continue Reading »
So saith Ozbama, the Great and Powerful, to an idealistic young Dorothy, a bright-eyed millennial Obama Girl wondering how she can ever get back to the land of expected economic American normality all her sweet elders told her about. What she needs is a strong dose of The Stanley Druckenmiller . . . . Continue Reading »
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