Such as you find, for example, in the some of the best parts of the American FIFTIES. Read what I have to say here . There sure were a lot of responses here, there, and everywhere to the St. John’s stuff below. I will get to them soon. The most PROBING was an email I got that wondered why my . . . . Continue Reading »
Byron York pointed out that Santorum has been one of the few Republicans who spent the 2012 trying to emphasize the problems of the struggling middle-class. Santorum was talking about the wage-earners who had not graduated college while the Republican ticket was publicly obsessed with extolling the . . . . Continue Reading »
So I’m sorry to have been MIA (or missing in laziness). I have to say I’m very moved by Carl’s last two posts. Joan Baez does have a beautiful voice, and I certainly agree that it’s all about non-bourgeois, non-pantheistic longings. If you click on Hugh Gillis’ link in . . . . Continue Reading »
Probably most pomocon readers know about this special place, but it’s good to be reminded. Now if I started to praise, and talk about my time at, St. John’s, the post would be a very long one indeed. But today there’s some praise from Roger Kimball I can send you to, and as it it . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s what our friend Rod Dreher calls FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS’ Coach Eric Taylor, as a result of reflecting on my “Religion and the Mind of the South.” Rod thinks the character Taylor doesn’t quite ring true, and the show as a whole is somewhat lacking in realism, . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s On the Square , Wesley J. Smith wants you to know that he is not anti-science, despite what his critics might claim . Quite the contrary, in fact. He’s pro-science, but also pro-ethics: Debate adversaries are called “anti-science” most commonly during . . . . Continue Reading »
Back to the Songbook—I can’t exactly explain why it has had to be dormant awhile. To understand Rock, I have argued, you have to wrestle with the 60s. This post is an attempt to capture perhaps that era’s most intoxicating moment, the early folkie and folk-rock one of expectation, . . . . Continue Reading »
When I was an undergraduate, I read two of the most important ex-gay books of the time: Coming Out of Homosexuality by Bob Davies and Lori Rentzel, and Straight & Narrow? by Thomas Schmidt. Coming out of Homosexuality was 208 pages long, and offered three . . . . Continue Reading »
Anthropology, Empire, and Modernity Alan Macfarlane, Fortnightly Review Bread in the Middle Ages Medievalists.net The Very Hip Rev. Gary Hall Mark Tooley, American Spectator Tocqueville’s Faith Robert J. Delahunty, Center for Law and Religion Forum Brainwashed William M. Briggs . . . . Continue Reading »
[caption id=”” align=”aligncenter” width=”480”] Yoga Class in Encinitas Public School (NYT) [/caption] Last month, a California state court ruled that including yoga in an elementary school phys ed program does not violate the Establishment Clause. . . . . Continue Reading »
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