William Doino Jr. reviews Rod Dreher’s The Little Way of Ruthie Leming : For all its idiosyncrasies and hardships, St. Francisville was a place where many people are born and die in the same place, alongside the same folks they grew up with. Those kind of social bonds, broad and deep, are . . . . Continue Reading »
“Emotional contraception is extremely ineffective,” says Nathaniel Peters . He and Donna Freitas recognize that the hook-up culture just isn’t as satisfying as college students make it out to be, particularly because human beings, much as we might like at times, cannot separate . . . . Continue Reading »
Some postmodern yet conservative thoughts by ME here , with a link to a good article by our friend Sam Goldman. . . . . Continue Reading »
At Via Meadia , Walter Russell Mead has been doing a great job covering the controversy surrounding visits last week by top Japanese officials to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. Yasukuni is a Shinto shrine; in Shinto belief, it houses the souls of millions of people who died in . . . . Continue Reading »
Infinite Progress Jathan Sadowski, L. A. Review of Books The Post-Welfare State Family Mary Eberstadt, Weekly Standard The Eighty-Year Reform of the Curia Sandro Magister, Aleteia The Mixed Blessings of Interfaith Marriage Naomi Schaefer Riley & Neal Conan, NPR A Father’s Love Tullian . . . . Continue Reading »
So Mary reminds us of the seemingly bad news that the demographic “crisis” has made welfare states worldwide unsustainable. The good news, in her opinion, is that the welfare state has the main cause of the erosion of proper responsibility for and dependence on the family. Maybe . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom issued a report, Protecting and Promoting Religious Freedom in Syria , that describes the religious contours of Syria’s civil war and makes recommendations for US policy with respect to the conflict. The report accuses both . . . . Continue Reading »
A while back, a student in my philosophy of religion class turned in a paper which stated that, in The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values , Sam Harris argued that morality was based on scientific discoveries about the order God had put into the world at the Creation. I . . . . Continue Reading »
Over on twitter, Reihan Salam and Patrick Brennan were discussing a Matthew Yglesias post on the Koch brothers’ attempt to buy the Tribune line of newspapers. Yglesias is for it since he thinks that the Koch brothers buying the Tribune papers and turning them into conservative news outlets . . . . Continue Reading »
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