Via Matt Yglesias , David Brooks argues in favor of the communal and slightly chaotic over the comfortable and over-refined. He describes this kind of joyous messiness with the Yiddish word “haimish”: Often, as we spend more on something, what we gain in privacy and elegance we lose in . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s not an opening you want to see in a news story: Lawyers for a Manhattan executive charged with murdering her 8-year-old son are attempting an unusual defense: They claim Gigi Jordan had no choice but to kill the boy, and was completely in her right mind when she did it. Jordan had . . . . Continue Reading »
In the latest issue of Books and Culture , Joseph Bottum has one of the most comprehensive reviews of mystery novels and Christianity that you’ll ever find: Some things have changed over the years, of course: the uses of technology, the openness about sex, and, notably, the treatment of . . . . Continue Reading »
I regularly comment on issues of relevance to the futuristic social movement that goes by the name of transhumanism. I am not impressed, both sharply disagreeing with its fervent anti human exceptionalistic/eugenic mindset, and finding its yearning for corporeal immortality rather sad. As I . . . . Continue Reading »
Stop Giving One Hundred Percent! The Scriptorium , John Mark Reynolds Thou Shalt Not Say “Jesus” Patheos , Thomas S. Kidd GOP leaders push to have marriage defined in N.C. Washington Times , Cheryl Wetzstein How the Church of England can—and will—endure The Spectator , Tom . . . . Continue Reading »
Walter Russell Mead takes note of the recent reappraisal by some liberal intellectuals of the work of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas : There are few articles of faith as firmly fixed in the liberal canon as the belief that Clarence Thomas is, to put it as bluntly as many liberals do, a dunce . . . . Continue Reading »
I have seen a couple of stories lately on a radical new last ditch cancer treatment involving extensive surgery and then a 90 minute bath directly on organs of hot chemotherapy. Significant questions remain about efficacy. A column in the NYT discusses the history of severe cancer treatments in . . . . Continue Reading »
Jonathan Last argues that Romney is in huge trouble because he is a mediocre-to-lousy campaigner with no real support base and no real principles. I think Last very slightly overstates his case. Romney’s campaign for the governorship in 2002 was pretty good. On, the other . . . . Continue Reading »
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Theologian Carl Truman has a helpful post explaining the different views of tradition held by Protestants and Catholics : Ask a thoughtful Protestant about where Protestantism and Catholicism most significantly diverge, and it is likely that they will mention the closely related areas of tradition . . . . Continue Reading »
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