What Sola Scriptura Does NOT Mean Credo House , C. Michael Patton The Great Orthodox Comeback Jewish Ideas Daily , Lawrence Grossman Divine Justice: The hidden story of Don Giovanni, Mozart’s Jewish opera Tablet , David Goldman In the Holy Land, a changed Christian world Associated Press What . . . . Continue Reading »
What is the EFSF? It’s the European Financial Stability Facility, silly! Don’t you keep up with European “politics?” Yes, yes, last week they were calling it the ESM, I think, but anyhow, here’s one of those fun little office-cooler cartoons (h/t Ricochet) to . . . . Continue Reading »
When writing yesterday’s “On the Square” column, Occupy Wall Street’s Empty Anger , I reread parts of George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier . The crowd at Zuccotti Park reminds me of the famous lines from the book in which Orwell describes the developed form . . . . Continue Reading »
So I was listening to some “wholesome” music that is worthwhile in its description of the ennui of modern eros, and this story came to mind (pardon the initial commercial on the video). Who wouldn’t like a pretty girl to call your own? Most young men wish to meet that sweet . . . . Continue Reading »
Blimey! The British Medical Journal reports on a study indicting the system of caring for eldelry people in UK hospitals. The title tells it all: “Half of English hospitals fail to meet basic standards on care for older people” (no link, BMJ . . . . Continue Reading »
George Will rightly hits Romney for being unprincipled, but that doesn’t mean Romney isn’t the best of the current field of Republican contenders (and this probably is the complete field - more is the pity.) The Ohio story is just perfect. Romney was visiting a phone . . . . Continue Reading »
Income inequality is one of those pseudo-political issues that no one really thinks is an important issue. If anyone were truly concerned about unequal distributions of income they’d be willing to do something about it. But they aren’t. I’ve never met anyone who earns $40,000 a . . . . Continue Reading »
Shannon Love reminds us that what great-great-granddad would consider utopia is what we consider modern life : Star Trek is often used as a starting point for musing about this or that utopia because everything in Star Trek seems so wonderful. Star Trek is Gene Roddenberry‘s vision of New . . . . Continue Reading »
In his latest On the Square column , David Mills examines Occupy Wall Street’s empty anger: They make you miss Marx, these Occupy Wall Streeters. Though even the New York Times first treated them as a slightly comical affair, the major media now give them the same extensive, sober, even . . . . Continue Reading »
Michael Gerson thinks so: Bachmann’s candidacy represents a digression in the quality and seriousness of evangelical political engagement. It is difficult to imagine Mike Huckabee boasting of his indifference to the health and welfare of children, whatever their background. Even Pat Robertson, . . . . Continue Reading »
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