People who are genuinely concerned about having to face an apocalyptic scenario in their own lifetimes generally fall into one of a few categories. There are evangelical Christians anticipating the Rapture. There are foreign-policy paranoiacs who foresee nuclear war. And there are the . . . . Continue Reading »
The New York Times , despite everything conservatives find reprehensible about it, still showcases interesting and arguable ideas, especially on Sundays. One such article turned up the other day, The Self-Destruction of the 1 Percent . There is plenty right and plenty wrong . . . . Continue Reading »
for big thinkers . You might already know this stuff. . . . . Continue Reading »
Late notice, but New York area readers may be interested to know about a conference titled “Why morality-free economic theory does not work” and offering a “natural law perspective” on the subject. The main speaker is Italian economist Luigno Bruni, author of the recent . . . . Continue Reading »
So it turns out that the whole Salem Witch Trial business may have been the result of a fungus. As it happens, this theory, more like a hypothesis, similar to a hunch, probably a total waste of ink, was first made public in 1976. But it’s new to me. And if it’s new to me, it’s new to you, . . . . Continue Reading »
Elizabeth Scalia on the conceit of primacy : Just as coastal conceit can devalue what comes out of “flyover country,” our First-world conceit can blind us to what is happening in the church “out there” among the “thems.” Upon learning that in 2004 Hungarian Archbishop . . . . Continue Reading »
After about 30 years of teaching college students, I’ve learned a lot of the tricks for prompting discussion among students—not that I have always been successful. One is to argue vigorously that two like cases are unlike, or that two unlike cases are alike, and see if the students rise . . . . Continue Reading »
Rapper 50 Cent recently took to Twitter to outline a four-step plan for sexual purity. We hear enough, mostly true, about the crassness of today’s pop-music that it’s worth highlighting when one of its stars speaks out for virtue (whatever else he has said against it elsewhere): [ <a . . . . Continue Reading »
I live in Georgia’s newest city, which actually won’t be a city for a couple of months yet. But we have to get organized, and so we have to elect a mayor and city council to get the city up and running. Last evening I attended a forum for city council candidates in my district. Much of . . . . Continue Reading »
Generation Whine: Self-Pitying Twentysomethings and the Boomers Who Made Them Laura Bennett, The New Republic The Book of Common Prayer at Three Hundred Fifty James Wood, The New Yorker Patheos Contretemps Re: Andy Warhol Thomas L. McDonald, God and the Machine Religious Themes in J. K. . . . . Continue Reading »
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