Adjunct faculty at Pacific Lutheran University have persuaded the National Labor Relations Board that they have the right to vote on whether to be represented by the Service Employees International Union. While the Supreme Court has held that religious institutions are generally outside NLRB . . . . Continue Reading »
Okay, maybe not lose, so much as lose by huge margins. I think that Republicans would have trouble winning a plurality of the youth vote even if they did everything right, but losing the youth vote by twenty-three points at a time of elevated youth unemployment is just brutal. The College . . . . Continue Reading »
My sister-in-law recently alerted me to a humorous announcement in the bulletin of her Catholic parish. The priest of Holy Ghost Catholic Church in Hammond, LA, would like for his parishioners to know: PLANS FOR PARISH SWIMMING POOL SCRAPPED! After much study, our finance committee has determined . . . . Continue Reading »
The Solitary Leaker David Brooks, New York Times When the Lamps Went On Kenneth Minogue, Wall Street Journal The Welsh Town of Bookstores Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today Modesty is Honesty Marc Barnes, Bad Catholic A Haredim Reality Show Liel Leibovitz, Tablet . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s, of course, easy to find everywhere on the web a kind of sophisticated fascination with BIG DATA. The idea of BIG DATA has become allegedly DISRUPTIVE and TRANSFORMATIVE scientism. Again, I’m too lazy to link: But I’ve even read a little article suggesting that colleges use . . . . Continue Reading »
When he died, roughly 50 years ago at the age of 59, Raphael Lemkin was impoverished and embittered, an unnoticed man. Only 7 people attended his funeral. Yet he was one of the most influential international human rights lawyers of the twentieth century. Lemkin, whom Jay Winter describes . . . . Continue Reading »
by having it address the serious issue . . . . Continue Reading »
So our threader with the erudite “pomoncon name” of Pseudoplotinus gives us a plausible intrpretation of recent events, scandals, and such: So here’s a take I haven’t heard yet. This scandal broke weeks after the President declared the War on Terror over. In other words we are . . . . Continue Reading »
Toward a “Cultic Liberal Christianity” Theo Hobson, Guardian O Priest of Jesus Christ Robert Royal, Catholic Thing On Being Plagiarized Charles Hartman, LRB Blog A Hermit’s Courage Br. Athanasius Murphy O.P., Dominicana Pragmatists vs. Agrarians? Allen Mendenhall, University . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t have time to do any linking, but just let me mention some issues that have arisen through my morning’s reading. The first is techno-surveillance and soft despotism—see Ross Douthat. It’s hard to know whether the main concern here is the government or the . . . . Continue Reading »
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