Blog Roundup: A Very Peter Leithart Thursday

Pretty quiet day today, but here’s what we have. At Postmodern Conservative , PETER LAWLER still thinks the government shutdown is dumb , in a blog post that is sadly CAPS -less. Over at Peter Leithart’s blog, Leithart is writing about Byron , the Bible , and book biographies . Finally, . . . . Continue Reading »

Don’t Prostitute Yourself, Miss Cyrus

Sinead O’Connor offers an argument for what is effectively chastity in the way young women present themselves in public, and in particular in relation to the way one misguided young woman, Miley Cyrus, presents herself in public. In an open letter prompted by Cyrus’s claim that one of . . . . Continue Reading »

… It’s Also Uncivil

James , thanks for investing the effort to so thoroughly debunk the latest nonsense from Jim Wallis. But in addition to substituting ideology for theology, Wallis is also practicing a breathtaking hypocrisy. For years, Wallis has been sanctimoniously denouncing his opponents for their failures of . . . . Continue Reading »

It’s Not Theology, It’s Ideology

Jim Wallis, editor-in-chief of Sojourners magazine, posted this YouTube video criticizing the shutdown of non-essential parts of the U.S. national government as “unbiblical.” Wallis’s argument is three-fold. First, he posits the factual claim that the government of the United States . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 10.3.13

The Case Against the Global Novel Pankaj Mishra, Financial Times How America’s Marriage Crisis Makes Income Inequality Worse Derek Thompson, Atlantic Cities Two Nations, Under Mammon Patrick J. Deneen, American Conservative Giving Your Money to Drug Addicts Marc Barnes, Bad Catholic Morality . . . . Continue Reading »

A Non-Political Pope? (Part 2)

Well, I said you couldn’t tell much from one interview. Last week, I  posted  about Pope Francis’s much discussed interview in an Italian Jesuit journal. I observed that the Pope seemed to be a mystic trying to place the Catholic Church outside politics–either progressive . . . . Continue Reading »

Public Service?

John Presnall’s commments in the thread deserve—again in the cause of advancing the “conversation”—to be posted separately. (This is only an excerpt.) Surely the government shutdown is one further message to the best and brightest that their employment is contingent . . . . Continue Reading »