At ninety-four years old, Eva Brann is both the oldest and longest-serving tutor at St. John’s College in Annapolis, America’s premier Great Books liberal arts institution. She is also the most widely published member of the faculty, notable at a school aimed at cultivating the life of the mind . . . . Continue Reading »
Chris Weir joins the podcast to discuss a project for renewing the culture of California. Continue Reading »
As biology has faded as a stable basis for definition, so a functional definition of “parent” has risen in prominence. Thus now, with psychological categories coming into play, the way is open for “parent” to be defined ideologically by the state. Continue Reading »
Jesus Revolution is a tale ripe for the excesses of made-by-evangelicals filmmaking, where drama often morphs into preachy melodrama. But, to their credit, the filmmaking team largely resists those temptations. Continue Reading »
Ever since California joined the union in 1850, efforts have been made to split the state. Continue Reading »
On September 11, 2017, between midnight and dawn, a statue of Fr. Junípero Serra—whom generations of California schoolchildren called “the Father of California”—was beheaded at Mission Santa Barbara. Reading about the defiled statue in the paper, I immediately question my father, my . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week, I moved from California to the Washington, D.C. area. I don’t expect to return. Alas, I don’t want to return. Continue Reading »
For most of his career, Starr viewed the California experiment benevolently, as a phenomenon balanced between utopia and reason. But he was an intense Catholic believer who seems finally to have despaired of California’s grandiloquent and heartbreaking destiny. Continue Reading »
Imagine receiving a letter telling you that while your insurance company won’t pay for experimental drugs to combat your cancer, they’d be happy to cover lethal drugs to help you die. You want to try to live a little longer, but you're only offered funding to hasten death. This happened to . . . . Continue Reading »
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