So this post tries to make a typical pop song important to one’s own (your own) reality. What is that big idea she had? To this day, you must still ask yourself. You may think that surely it had something to do with freedom and equality, but what that left for each of you was a bunch of deep . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m talking to Romney, Santorum, Bachmann and Paul. The Freddie Mac digs seem to be getting under Gingrich’s skin. He said he would return all of his Freddie Mac money if Romney returned all of his Bain Capital money (what with all the layoffs and all.) Big tactical . . . . Continue Reading »
This year was the sixtieth anniversary of William F. Buckley’s God and Man at Yale . Here’s a taste of the bracing new proposals for higher education reform from another Yale graduate, entitled Do It Yourself University : Most people no longer feel the need to visit a large, stone . . . . Continue Reading »
By now, you’ve probably heard that the Supreme Court has denied certiorari in the Bronx Household of Faith case, letting stand an appellate court’s ruling that the New York City Board of Education can refuse to make public school space available to churches, many of which will be . . . . Continue Reading »
I crawled into bed last night just before 12, shaken and very quiet. I had just returned from seeing Lars von Trier’s new film Melancholia . Many readers of First Things likely took David Bentley Hart’s advice to eschew Atlas Shrugged in favor of Terrence Malick’s masterpiece, . . . . Continue Reading »
Has American popular culture hit a dead end—-essentially stopped evolving and contented itself with endlessly regurgitating the past? That’s the premise of a rather provocative essay in the January issue of Vanity Fair which speculates that, rather than having . . . . Continue Reading »
Euthanasia is not just a lethal act, but a deadly ideological appetite—one that is never satiated. Once killing is unleashed as a solution to suffering, activists will always want more. Always. As I have written before, they remind me of the man killing plant in Little . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s On the Square feature, Micah Mattix discusses Nikolai Gogol’s The Night Before Christmas : [P]erhaps no Russian writer is as foreign as Nikolai Gogol. He was even baffling to his own countrymen. “Gogol was a strange creature,” Vladimir Nabokov famously . . . . Continue Reading »
This interview by an utterly clueless interlocutor, illustrates why the proposed “international crime against peace” of “ecocide” would be so harmful to humanity. Polly Higgens, the earth mother of the movement, would put the CEO of the tar sands development . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Books & Culture , John Wilson offers his books of the year . I love John’s methodology: the best books are those that first come to mind after a year of reading. Here are a couple of the more interesting titles: Apricot Jam: And Other Stories . Aleksandr . . . . Continue Reading »
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