Today on Public Discourse , Mark Regnerus speculates about the connection he found between men who support gay marriage and men who use pornography. Today’s pornography treats viewers to “a veritable fire-hose dousing of sex-act diversity.” Moreover, it doesn’t . . . . Continue Reading »
You’d expect that somebody named Waters used to live beside some waters, just as somebody named Rivers used to live beside a river. It ain’t so. Just pronounce the name Walters as if you were from Phiwadewphia: Waowters. The dark English “l” was swawwowed up in . . . . Continue Reading »
Treating G.K. Chesterton as an authority whose aphorisms can be quoted for any purpose other than amusement is, as Elliot Milco maintains , silly. One might as well treat Edward Lear as an authority. (Though an exception should be made for literary matters, an area where he wrote with . . . . Continue Reading »
Terence Malick’s latest film features an American (Ben Affleck) who falls in love with a French woman and a priest (Javier Bardem) who undergoes a crisis of faith. IndieWire calls it “Malick’s most accessible work in years” while the Hollywood Reporter pans it as . . . . Continue Reading »
Klaus Obenauer on the SSPX Situation Pater Edmund, Sancrucensis The “Blog Mob” and Journalism Joseph Rago, The New Criterion Continuing to Argue Against Abortion Roberta Bayer, Front Porch Republic Augustine, the Pelagians, and the Free Market [video] William T. Cavanaugh, Victoria . . . . Continue Reading »
Sorry about the light blogging of late, especially Songbook-wise, but I’m movin’ to Newport News for a “new gig” and travelin’ meantime back to my Cali home. Thanks to a tip from a tardy commenter on my epic essay on social dance , however, here’s a ‘lil . . . . Continue Reading »
As the American right emerges from its November defeat, I’m wondering how conservatives will relate their current situation to their memory of Ronald Reagan. What lessons of Reagan’s career are most appropriate for our current situation? One approach is to repeat heavily distorted and . . . . Continue Reading »
Twenty-five years ago, on July 1, 1987, President Reagan nominated Robert Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court, to replace the retiring Justice Lewis Powell. One hundred fourteen days later, on October 23, 1987, the U.S. Senate declined to give its consent to his appointment, by a vote of forty-two . . . . Continue Reading »
Continuing the debate over fertility and decadence that Matthew Schmitz has mentioned on this blog, Samuel Goldman suggests that underlying the low birth rates of wealthy nations is not just selfishness but a very high estimation of the requirements of parenting. The occasion for his . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve learned much about logic in the week and a half since my previous post here . In that little missive, I wrote about a Peter Kreeft essay that I had trouble making sense of. Kreeft argued that symbolic logic “has serious social, moral, and even sexual implications, . . . . Continue Reading »
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