Peter J. Leithart on the process of writing a book : Writing a book is like groping through a cave that no one else has explored or ever will, because you create the cave as you go. When it’s all done I can’t remember how I got through all the tunnels to emerge, blinking, into the sun. . . . . Continue Reading »
Former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announced that he’s “semi-retiring” from his leadership of the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. His legacy, both at Heritage and at the Justice Department, cannot be overstated, as I wrote in the . . . . Continue Reading »
Daniel Henninger has gone down the rabbit hole. In his column for the Wall Street Journal he inveighs against the countless ways in which the tax code is manipulated by legislators to reward this or that constituency—-or donors and lobbyists, as the case may be. The . . . . Continue Reading »
My friends Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson, and Robert P. George, authors of What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense , will discuss their book next Tuesday, January 8, at 12:30 p.m. at the Heritage Foundation in Washington. The event will be hosted by Jennifer Marshall, director of . . . . Continue Reading »
I missed this report from before Christmas in the Boston Globe and I wish I missed it altogether. Romney’s son Tagg, one of Romney’s closest campaign advisers, says his father did not really want to become president. “He wanted to be president less than anyone I’ve met in my . . . . Continue Reading »
The Passive Voice is used badly when the writer tucks the real item of interest into a prepositional phrase, obscuring the agent of the verb and deflecting the emphasis. Consider these sentences: The slider was hammered by Colavito into the left field bleachers. Colavito hammered the slider . . . . Continue Reading »
A Nation Addicted to Crisis Zachary Karabell, The Atlantic Shakers: The Elegant Errors of a Failed Sect C. R. Wiley, Imaginative Conservative Catholics and the Bourgeois Mind Thomas Storck, Distributist Review Piper Denounces Prosperity Gospel, Playful Worship in Last (Official) Sermon Lillian . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s an update to last week’s post about a movement to curtail Sunday shopping in Europe. In that post, I speculated that allowing stores to open Sundays might create pressure for observant Christian employees: skip church and report to work, or lose your job. It turns out . . . . Continue Reading »
“If,” as Catholic blogger Marc Barnes wrote , “in the course of human events, a cringe-inducing karaoke of an already over-played pop song is your primary response to the philosophical tradition of the Holy Catholic Church, you’ve negated yourself long, long . . . . Continue Reading »
Among the many things worth studying, one of the most interesting is what I call ‘philosophical folklore’. Folklore, of course, consists of micro-traditions passed down within communities as part of the ordinary ways of life of the people in those communities. We usually think of these . . . . Continue Reading »
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