I should, perhaps, not admit to the following in print, but here goes. When I was in fifth grade, in 1973, I bought my first record, taking my dollar to the nearest variety store and buying the 45 of a song I’d heard on the radio late at night. The record: Black Sabbath’s “Iron . . . . Continue Reading »
The April-June edition of America’s leading journal of political science—PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICAL SCIENCE—is out. There’s a symposium on the retirement of Father James Schall (who was America’s best teacher of political science) and articles on Roberto . . . . Continue Reading »
Kermit Gosnell’s attorney, Jack McMahon, made his closing arguments yesterday. In his statements, he attempted to make Gosnell seem like a respectable businessman who cares about his community. World Magazine reports that the attorney tried to convince the jury to look past the fact . . . . Continue Reading »
The latest issue of the Weekly Standard includes a rant against Twitter by Matt Labash, who does not have a Twitter account. I am on Twitter , and I like it a lot. Of course, it has its vapid and vicious aspects, but all in all, I find that Twitter is the most useful means . . . . Continue Reading »
The Debt We Shouldn’t Pay Robert Kuttner, New York Review of Books Is the Way We Divorce About to Change? Beverly Willett and Chris Gersten, Huffington Post America as Mission Territory Carl Olson, Ignatius Insight To Malick’s Wonder Brett McCracken, Mere Orthodoxy Online Review . . . . Continue Reading »
At the Center for Law and Religion Forum , Michigan Law School’s Dan Crane writes about the absence of Evangelical Christians among America’s legal elites : My strong intuition is that evangelicals are grossly underrepresented in the legal elite. To focus again on the (admittedly . . . . Continue Reading »
We had a large number of women with us of various ages, which angered the young men who like to engage in confrontation. They addressed themselves to the women, saying: “What brought you here today? The Brotherhood has bad intentions and we don’t want to be preoccupied with you.” . . . . Continue Reading »
In his review of Rod Dreher’s The Little Way of Ruthie Leming , William Doino reminds us that even though Dreher’s title references St. Thérèse of Lisieux’s “Little Way,” Ruthie Leming was Methodist, not Catholic. It seemed an occasion to point out that St. . . . . Continue Reading »
When I was in seminary, one of the hot topics we students debated was where each of us stood on the matter of women’s ordination. In our evangelical world, this issue was talked about in terms of “ egalitarianism ” (i.e., women are equally gifted alongside men and are called to serve . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s what you get when you combine John McWhorter’s fine mini-lecture on texting-talk as an “emergent complexity” of human linguistic evolution, or more helpfully, as “fingered speech,” with Matt Labash’s deliciously long TWS essay on why twitter, and the . . . . Continue Reading »
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