So here’s a short post by the fine blogger Alan Jacobs. With Alan, Sam Goldman, and Rod Dreher, I have to admit that THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE is starting to surge in a big way. So Alan’s point is that colleges are engaged in a destructive amenities arms race. Their health clubs and . . . . Continue Reading »
And boys of all ages mourn. The dread creaking-bronze colossus Talos, from my favorite Harryhausen-driven movie, Jason and the Argonauts , and his many other unforgettable creations will of course live on in the image file. In addition to being one of those charming American inventor types, from . . . . Continue Reading »
Elizabeth Scalia on the age of technology and ideology : Self-idolization is a natural by-product of the instrumentalization of our age, and it is weakening us. The GPS destroys our sense of direction; social scientists cripple our instinctive knowing. The world says True North is a relative . . . . Continue Reading »
The push for gay marriage is part of the state’s “drive to assume direct control over the reproduction of the population” writes British theologian John Milbank: Heterosexual exchange and reproduction has always been the very “grammar” of social relating as such. . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m glad that Matthew Schmitz posted excerpts yesterday from the statement released by Southern Baptist leaders regarding recent reports about religious freedom in the military. Russell Moore (familiar to FT readers), president-elect of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Student loan debt is scary. That’s the message of this video. In B-movie style, this short film dramatizes that many young Americans are suffocating under their student loans and other debts. The problem is all too real, but most Americans still take out student loans without a thought. . . . . Continue Reading »
The NRA of the Left Kirsten Powers, Daily Beast René Girard: Who Is This Guy, Anyway? Caleb Nelson, Juicy Ecumenism Has Debating the Enlightenment Become Stale? Ollie Cussen, Prospect Seventeenth Century Russians in Twenty-First Century Alaska Wendi Jonassen and Ryan Loughlin, Atlantic For . . . . Continue Reading »
Yuval Levin has some eminently sensible suggestions for how to improve the Gang Of Eight’s immigration bill. Levin’s suggestions include mandating the near-term adoption of E-Verify for all employees, eliminating the guest worker program and shifting future immigration toward high-skill . . . . Continue Reading »
At the Center for Law and Religion Forum , University of Michigan law professor Dan Crane has been doing an interesting series of posts on the under-representation of Evangelicals within America’s legal elite. Dan notes that Evangelicals do not seem overly bothered by the fact that . . . . Continue Reading »
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