Over at CatholicCulture, Jeff Mirus discusses Andrew Chestnut’s relatively new Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, The Skeleton Saint . Mirus’ piece is simultaneously a book review and an introduction to a steadily-growing cultic practice which is both fascinating and frightening, and is . . . . Continue Reading »
Gehry’s Ghastly Eisenhower Memorial George Weigel, National Review Online European Identities & Immigration Francis Fukuyama, American Interest Why Isn’t Pork Kosher? Shmarya Rosenberg, Tablet Massachusetts Doctors Reject Physician-Assisted Suicide Adam J. MacLeod, Public Discourse . . . . Continue Reading »
In an interview with America magazine, Robert P. George offers advice to young people unsure of their careers and vocations: My first bit of advice would be to attend to your spiritual life. Develop a strong interior life, especially when we are making educational choices and . . . . Continue Reading »
Of course pomocons don’t listen to Prozac! Nor should they, but in our fascination with the vicissitudes of the presidential nomination process, might we not be asking to be put in a giant sack hanging from a tree? Learning the style of populist rhetoric may make us as (un)popular as Gingrich . . . . Continue Reading »
This 200-page history of the Oxford Union preserves undergraduate wit with enormously greater permanence than it is in undergraduate wit’s nature to be preserved. Try telling a college student that a joke he made yesterday — for example, “The honourable gentlemen have turned their . . . . Continue Reading »
1. The turnout was down from last time and almost half the votes were cast by independents. 2. Romney won but nobody thought he really did well. I thought his speech was vacuous and inauthentic. 3. Most of the rest of the vote went to guys who aren’t really challengers to him for the . . . . Continue Reading »
It was better delivered than usual. It had real focus as a defense of free enterprise against its enemies (including some “Republicans”.) Romney still isn’t there and he isn’t close to getting there. He needs to explain how his agenda will lead to higher . . . . Continue Reading »
Wow. The center-right media environment has turned toxic for Gingrich really quick. Rush Limbaugh and National Review hit him hard on the same say. I saw some of the 5:00 PM and 6:00 PM FOX News shows and both contained unfavorable references to Gingrich’s Bain Capital . . . . Continue Reading »
Man’s greatness comes from knowing he is wretched. Pascal This entry will wrap up the Songbook’s oft-interrupted series of “loneliness and individualism songs,” all from 1965-1967, which by way of review, began with The Beach Boys’ “That’s Not Me,” . . . . Continue Reading »
Love this Ramesh Ponnuru tweet about Gingrich’s attacks on Bain Capital and Romney “Gingrich’s behavior is frankly so outside the norm for a Republican, only a Kenyan anti-colonial mindset can explain it.” Sweet. . . . . Continue Reading »
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