1. So some have asked: Where’s your incisive commentary on holiday movies? 2. Well, I saw LES MIZ: It’s an edifying tale of how personal transformation through faith and charity is real and how transformation through political revolution is a bloody illusion. 3. As a Tocquevillian, I . . . . Continue Reading »
On God and Downton Abbey Todd Dorman, Christianity Today Constitutionalism, Orestes Brownson, and Hegel Richard Reinsch, Library of Law & Liberty Can Forgiveness Play a Role in Criminal Justice? Paul Tullis, New York Times Tracking the Times on Contraception Michael J. . . . . Continue Reading »
The New York C.S. Lewis Society (founded 1969) is the oldest society for the appreciation and discussion of C.S. Lewis in the world and holds Meetings every second Friday of the month (except August). Our very own David Mills will be speaking there on April 12 for those of you who will . . . . Continue Reading »
TNT magazine reports : Yesterday saw the first ‘service’ of The Sunday Assembly, London’s first atheist church. Priding itself on its tagline ‘live better, help often, wonder more,’ The Sunday Assembly is the brainchild of Sanderson Jones and musical comedian Pippa Evans, . . . . Continue Reading »
As noted below, Greg Forster has an essay up at Public Discourse defending George Bailey’s now-infamous sub-development. In doing so, he professes his enthusiasm for the destruction businesspeople are able to inflict on old, “corrupted” social structures. I have a few questions . . . . Continue Reading »
A few years ago I picked up at a yard sale held at a local church a copy of Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis. As I wrote somewhere else at the time, the book contains the amusing letters, published in the teens and early twenties, of a cockroach named Archy who typed them by diving . . . . Continue Reading »
Andrew Norman Wilson, better known by his initials, A. N. Wilson, is an on-again, off-again atheist who has written books on C. S. Lewis, Leo Tolstoy, the Victorians, and many other subjects. At the beginning of a new year, the Daily Mail has published Wilson’s retrospective on the sexual . . . . Continue Reading »
R.R. Reno on First Things in 2013 : Readers very likely will not be surprised that I frequently write notes to myself about the nature and mission of First Things . The magazine is something of a cipher. It has a strong Catholic dimension, but it’s certainly not merely Catholic. Furthermore, . . . . Continue Reading »
As we mentioned way back in September, readers in the New York area might be interested to attend this year’s Annual Father Alexander Schmemann lecture on January 18th at St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary in Yonkers, where Peter Brown, noted scholar of late antiquity, will . . . . Continue Reading »
During the Christmas break, Patrick Deneen published a bill of indictment against George Bailey here at FT. The defendant stands accused of destroying Bedford Falls and its tradition-bound, permanence-seeking culture with his soulless suburbs. My brief for the defense appears over on TPD this . . . . Continue Reading »
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