Piggybacking onto Joe Lindsley’s post, which captures Notre Dame so well, readers might enjoy G.K. Chesterton’s poem about Notre Dame football, reflecting on how the gladiatorial games were transformed by the coming of Christ. You can read the whole thing here , but the final stanzas . . . . Continue Reading »
The American Bar Association Journal reports : Star litigators in Chicago are preparing to retry a controversial 2,400-year-old free speech case that famously resulted in the death of Socrates, now considered the father of Greek philosophy, when he drank a cup of poisonous hemlock. Dan Webb of . . . . Continue Reading »
Lent is a most unusual word. Germans call the forty day period between Ash Wednesday and Palm Sunday by the perfectly reasonable name Fastenzeit: the time for fasting. The French, mishearing the Latin quadrigesima, fortieth, call it Careme; whether they . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s New York Times, authors Patrick McCloskey and Joseph Harris took to the editorial page to announce that “Catholic parochial education is in a crisis.” In many regards, this is quite true. Any observer of the state of the Catholic education . . . . Continue Reading »
Sexual Iconoclasm Russell D. Moore, Touchstone In Defense of Sports Bhaskar Sunkara, In These Times Same-sex Marriage and the Speed of Social Change Matthew J. Franck, Public Discourse More Secrets of Art History Revealed Matthew Milliner, Millinerd The Difficulty of Portraying Small . . . . Continue Reading »
The weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal featured an article advocating the decriminalization of drugs. Economists Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy argue the war on drugs has failed, and social costs of continuing with our current laws are too high. Their solution is to legalize drugs use, and . . . . Continue Reading »
A friend sends the links to three compositions , Veni Sancte Spiritus , Christor Redemptor Omnium , and Creator alme Siderum , by a twenty-two-year-old English composer named Lawrence Whitehead. The composer discusses his writing of the first and latest composition here : My process for . . . . Continue Reading »
1. A couple of days ago I wrote about how some younger strongly Obama-approving voters had inclinations that overlap with the center-right. I’d like to add that I don’t think any statistically significant number of these voters are going to come around to a center-right political . . . . Continue Reading »
Me? I’m swamped with sweaty efforts to simultaneously move to a new house and bang a new syllabus into shape. Posting will be rare for a while. But you? You should rush to your local movie theater this instant to catch the second and third parts of the NY Metropolitan Opera’s simulcast . . . . Continue Reading »
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