On the subject of dressing, I think the final word belongs to St. Louis. The saint-king is quoted in Chesterton’s Saint Thomas Aquinas as saying to his courtiers: “Vanity should be avoided; but every man should dress well, in the manner of his rank, that his wife may the more easily . . . . Continue Reading »
It looks like some youngsters in the business world have taken to heart David Mills’ recent advice (also mentioned in the While We’re At It section of the February 2013 issue of First Things ) about dressing to the nines. Formal Fridays: top hats, silk dresses, matching watches . . . . Continue Reading »
Collin Garbarino on the fiscal cliff and the fifth commandment : The federal government paused at the edge of the fiscal cliff and decided to look before it leapt. Last week the Senate passed a compromise bill, which raised some taxes and postponed most discussion about spending cuts, and the House . . . . Continue Reading »
Since the first of the year I’ve been working to catch up. A friend had sent a useful article by Chrystia Freeland, ” The Self-Destruction of the 1 Percent ,” and I finally got around to clicking through and reading it. Freeland has an interesting story to tell about Venice. The city went . . . . Continue Reading »
It may please some of my readers to learn that the word whore and the name Cher are etymologically related. But how? The first thing we need to clear out of the way is that w at the beginning of whore. It doesn’t belong there. It’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Filmed Tuesday, January 8 at the Heritage Foundation: . . . . Continue Reading »
The Millenial Generation’s Acceptable Sin Barton Gingerich, The Gospel Coalition A New B-School Curriculum: Faith and Finance [video] Melissa Korn, Wall Street Journal The Best Books I Read Last Year Various, Catholic World Report Aquinas Versus Newton? Ed Feser, Ed Feser The Self in . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday was the fourth anniversary of the death of Richard John Neuhaus. Those who knew him intimately and those who knew him only through his writings share the pain of his loss. Since he was irreplaceable, it is scarcely a surprise that no one has taken his place in American . . . . Continue Reading »
The same quality that makes Russian novels so distinctive in world literature can also transform even sensitive Anglophone readers into the boy at the back of English class who keeps asking why Hamlet doesn’t just make up his mind already. It comes down to a certain implausibility in the . . . . Continue Reading »
Arrogant Without wading too deep into any technical lit-crit battles over the so-called death of the author, I think I can safely endorse the rule that, in general, one should not criticize a writer’s work by attacking his personal life. If an author happens to have been an adulterer, a . . . . Continue Reading »
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