. . . not THAT high, of course. I’m using the internet on a Delta plane on the way to Provo, UT, called by at least two French guys I know the most fascinating place in the Western World these days. I’ve been completely against allowing the internet to disturb the sanctuary that is the . . . . Continue Reading »
Misreading the “Gift from God” Comments Amy Sullivan, The New Republic The Case for the Electoral College Derek T. Muller, Liberty Law Site Punditry and the Unseriousness of Human Affairs Mark Judge, Acculturated You Should Be Reading John Mikhail Rob Vischer, Mirror of Justice The . . . . Continue Reading »
Conor Friedersdorf asks about the president’s kill list, drones, and Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, 16 years old and an American citizen, who was the son of the late Anwar al-Awlaki, who was also born in America, who was also an American citizen, and who was also killed by drone. There is a . . . . Continue Reading »
African literature has done a great deal to form the conventional wisdom about the cultural side of colonialism, that conventional wisdom being that African societies used to be communitarian, spiritual, and close to nature, but then these virtues were eroded by contact with the individualistic, . . . . Continue Reading »
at Verily: In 1960, the median age of marriage for women was 20. Today, it is 27. While our grandmothers had no qualms about walking down the aisle in their early twenties, today anyone thinking about marriage under the age of 25 gets a lot of advice about not rushing into things. Marrying young is . . . . Continue Reading »
Ignatius Press has been for some time promoting this new film based on the life of St. Augustine. I saw it the other night at one of the public showings that Christian groups are encouraged to sponsor, and while the rest of the largely church-going and Catholic-student-group audience seemed . . . . Continue Reading »
with Julie Klam: ...Friendships, to many of us, are part of the fundamental infrastructure of our emotional lives, and when Klam and I spoke about the book, she made exactly this comparison when she explained why she wanted to write about friendship in the first place. Her inspiration wasn’t . . . . Continue Reading »
Looks like we’ll have to update our house bio: Alan Jacobs, Clyde S. Kilby professor of English at Wheaton College, has accepted a new post as Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Baylor University’s Honors College. A coup indeed for Baylor! . . . . Continue Reading »
Today’s unexpected story: from Metro , a thin tabloid distributed at the subway during morning rush hour, comes Jets’ Tebow Gets Support from “Jews for Tebow” . The group has 4,000 members, who according to a founder quoted in the story tend to like Tebow more for his . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week I mentioned that our friend and advisory board member Timothy George had gone to Rome at the pope’s invitation as a fraternal delegate to the general assembly of the Synod of Bishops. Timothy is, as readers may know, a Southern Baptist, and was there representing the Baptist . . . . Continue Reading »
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