Micah Mattix on the morality of modern cycling : Last week, in an interview with Oprah, Lance Armstrong admitted what everybody already knew: that he took performance-enhancing drugs during his cycling career. Last year, the head of USADA (United States Anti-Doping Association) stated that under . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Today is Lee-Jackson day. It reminds us that Virginia was forced into a war it didn’t want by events initiated by the states of the deep South and President Lincoln. Other states started the war by seceding in response to the agitation by hotheaded aristocrats (masters) without anywhere . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Christianity Today , Allison Althoff has a story about the growing attention to LGBT issues on evangelical Christian college campuses : Same-sex attracted students at several Christian institutions have attempted to start on-campus organizations with varying degrees of success. Seattle . . . . Continue Reading »
Some of us spent all or much of the weekend at this year’s New York Encounter , sponsored by the Catholic movement Communion and Liberation. It’s an annual event and we’d recommend it for those of you in the area who might be able to come next year. Among the highlights for me was . . . . Continue Reading »
Occasioned by Peter Lawler’s trenchant thoughts, 1. Obama took office during a combination deep recession and banking crisis. You would expect corporate profits to recover absent a 1930s-style deflationary cycle + collapse of the banking system. Ben Bernanke might have gotten some things . . . . Continue Reading »
1. So Dr. Pat Deneen on FACEBOOK reminded us that corporate profits are up 161% under Obama. That’s faster than any comparable period since 1900. Pat’s comment: “Some socialist!” 2. Not only that, of course, but the STOCK MARKET is way up under our president. I’m too . . . . Continue Reading »
“Never begin a sentence with and, ” my college freshmen have been told. This is another one of those rules that somebody must have dreamed up in a rage of vengeance: a schoolmaster named Ichabod, disappointed in love, glowering down on his young charges, and thinking, “Yes, I . . . . Continue Reading »
Josh Marshall writes: But a huge amount of the current gun debate, the argument for the gun-owning tribe, amounts to the gun culture invading my area, my culture, my part of the country. That is where I think that Marshall goes wrong in his whole essay. No part of the country belongs to his . . . . Continue Reading »
Very bad news. Bill Sakovich, the writer of what was the best single-foreign-country-specific blog in English that I’ve ever read, Ampontan, a blog on all things Japanese but especially its politics, passed away due to a suddenly-discovered stomach cancer this December 21. I just found . . . . Continue Reading »
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