Jacques Barzun, who died yesterday in San Antonio at 104, had an intellect that was recognized as widely as it ranged. Yet evident as his erudition was, as powerful his judgment, it was never apparent just what he believed. He had surveyed the world, but where did he stand? Did his criticism . . . . Continue Reading »
And, his advertisements are even more insulting. C.J. Box at Ricochet discovers an Obama ad by Lena Dunham of GIRLS fame , which equates a young woman’s first time voting for a presidential candidate with her first time having, well, you know what. Don’t you want your first time to be . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Romney’s lead in the RCP head-to-head average is only .9% but Romney is leading by 2%-3% in five of the last six polls. The IBD/TIPP poll is an outlier. I see no reason to believe they have it right while everyone else has it wrong (I felt the same way when most polls were showing an Obama . . . . Continue Reading »
All absolutisms, appropriately enough, are not created equal. It is possible for a man to support one despot but condemn another, or to be a thoroughgoing monarchist at home and a republican elsewhere. A French aristocrat might go to Tsarist Russia and say, with perfect consistency, “I am a . . . . Continue Reading »
Congratulations to my friend ( and fellow opponent of anti-Sharia laws ) Robert K. Vischer on his appointment as dean of the University of St. Thomas School of Law. Robert’s writing—-at Mirror of Justice and elsewhere—-always rewards attention. . . . . Continue Reading »
“That the reactionary protests against progressive society, judges it, and condemns it, and yet is resigned to its current monopoly of history, seems an eccentric position. The radical progressive, on the one hand, does not comprehend how the reactionary condemns an action that he . . . . Continue Reading »
When I read Rebecca West’s description of the folk costume of Albanian men, I assumed she was lying or at least exaggerating: No Westerner ever sees an Albanian for the first time without thinking that the poor man’s trousers are just about to drop off. They are cut in a straight line . . . . Continue Reading »
“Maurice Sendak,” says Russell D. Moore , “was, by all accounts, a lonely, misanthropic, cynical, homosexual atheist.” Yet, in an article he wrote shortly after Sendak’s death a few months ago for the Nov/Dec 2012 issue of Touchstone , he praises him . . . . Continue Reading »
Thomas Kidd’s recent blog post about a relatively little-known political demographic—”paleo-evangelicals”—has sparked an interesting conversation about how Christians approach politics and how a generation gap contributes to those differences. In Kidd’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Russell E. Saltzman wonders why Lutherans can’t take Catholic communion : Intercommunion for us is no big deal, though it used to be. Beginning in 1875 and for about a century thereafter, we had the Akron-Galesburg Rule: Lutheran pulpits for Lutheran pastors only; Lutheran altars for Lutheran . . . . Continue Reading »
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