My academic training is in poetry but I love stout fiction, the kind Faulkner and Joyce wrote. The kind that clothes life-like characters with carefully interwoven abstraction and emotional chaos. Nothing emulates reality quite like these kinds of stories. About a year ago I read . . . . Continue Reading »
In her latest On the Square Column, Elizabeth Scalia reflects on feeling the presence of God : Just about two years ago, I had occasion to make a monastic retreat that included the gift and privilege of perpetual adoration. The community of Dominican nuns kept constant vigil, one-by-one with our . . . . Continue Reading »
Richard A. Epstein says both the Bishop of Rome and the Oracle of Omaha are dead wrong on economic policy : Denouncing those who put ‘profits before people’ may stir the masses, but it is a wickedly deformed foundation for social policy. Profits, like losses, do not exist in the abstract. . . . . Continue Reading »
We generally provide the best health care in the world in the USA. Our primary failing is opening access to insurance for the working middle class whose employers don’t provide it, and to people with preexisting conditions that don’t qualify for Medicaid or Medicare (which, like . . . . Continue Reading »
Defend Marriage: Moms and Dads Matter Public Discourse , Maggie Gallagher False Start? The Controversy Over Adam and Eve Heats Up AlbertMohler.com , Albert Mohler Muslims See Foreign Law Bill As Attack on Sharia Washington Times , Andrea Billups The Rugged Altruists New York Times, David Brooks . . . . Continue Reading »
So Grover Norquist, head of the libertarian Americans for Tax Reform, tweets: “If Keynesian economics worked—-shoplifting would create jobs.” In reply, Matt Yglesias, a fellow at the liberal Center for American Progress Action Fund who has a BA in Philosophy from Harvard, thinks . . . . Continue Reading »
So here’s what one BRENDAN FOHT threaded in response to my most recent BIG THINK post on deeath. There’s a lot of wisdom packed into a few words: What exactly do you mean by explaining the situation Dave? The New Testament is fairly clear about Jesus and eternal life, clear enough to . . . . Continue Reading »
Lately with all the talk of “Dominionism” and the scary religious right and Frank Schaeffer chiming in, I feel the need to draw attention to a biography of Francis Schaeffer that I think really portrayed him fairly and without the usual political histrionics. I wrote the following . . . . Continue Reading »
While the Ryan people were announcing that he wasn’t running for President (sigh), I was out watching FRIGHTNIGHT. Very enjoyable vampire movie that does a smart job of incorporating some of the anxieties of the Great Recession. That is tougher to do than it sounds. The . . . . Continue Reading »
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