“The stunning news that the United States may be the most surveilled society in human history has opened a fierce debate on security, privacy, and accountability,” says Timothy George in today’s column . “It has also brought about an amazing and unpredicted political . . . . Continue Reading »
1. So this week I have to pick the books, finally, for my fall seminar entitled TECHNOLOGY. I really need some new ideas on recent developments, beginning with BIG DATA. 2. So I’ve gotten several emails this morning on THE BATTLE OF GETTSBURG. I recommend to you Ralph Peters’ article . . . . Continue Reading »
Naturalizing “Shalom”: Confessions of a Kuyperian Secularist James K. A. Smith, Comment Do Protestants Belong? Darryl Hart, Front Porch Republic The Age Demanded an Image Sarah Ruden, Books & Culture Tolkien’s Arthur Tom Shippey, Times Literary Supplement John Carroll’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Con-law is often a lot easier than you think. Justice Alito begins his comments on the section of his U.S. v. Windsor dissent that deals with the “merits” of the case (as opposed to the operational “cases and controversies” dispute about it) as follows: Same-sex marriage . . . . Continue Reading »
At his weekly Angelus address, Pope Francis delivered some wonderful words on conscience today , using his predecessor’s radical decision to resign the papacy as an example, along with that of Mary: So we also [like Jesus] must learn to listen more to our conscience. Be careful, however: this . . . . Continue Reading »
1. If your bitterest ideological opponents in the other coalition are saying that you have to follow their advice and support their policy preferences in order to avoid your doom, then you know you are getting bad advice. So don’t do what they want. Figure out what works for you. 2. Imagine if a . . . . Continue Reading »
As a former tour-guide at Mormon historic sites, I have encountered more than one fundamentalist Mormon family in which the strutting husband seems to regard his flock of servile wives like glorified property. We’re not wrong to want to discourage this. Moreover, those remote compounds in . . . . Continue Reading »
reports/speculates: As college costs keep rising and student-loan debt causes national consternation, more Americans are asking whether young people should bother with college. Here, at least, is one point in favor of higher education: Americans who fail to complete at least some post-secondary . . . . Continue Reading »
I bumped into this piece, ” Polygamists Celebrate Supreme Court’s Marriage Rulings ” and thought, well, of course they do. Anything goes now. Who is to judge? Marriage means what we want it to mean. What we could discuss, since the morality argument is . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, I’m sticking with my position that I wouldn’t leave town to see it. But I didn’t have to leave my house. It’s already “on demand.” I was rooting for it to be better than it was. It was insufferably overbearing, and the good and evil lead characters . . . . Continue Reading »
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