TABLE OF CONTENTS July–September 2012, Vol. 41, No. 3 ARTICLES A School or a Stage? Tocqueville and Arendt on Politics and Education Brian Danoff Tocqueville and the Religion of Democracy Richard Avramenko Political Relativism in the Work of Martin Heidegger Jason Blakely Self-Knowledge and . . . . Continue Reading »
And not with pacifists. Ricochet member and pomocon friend Flagg Taylor is over in the Czech Republic again, and sending home dissidents’ reports of what it was like to hear a U.S. president to speak openly against the communist oppression they lived under. . . . . Continue Reading »
Here are some observations from a Catholic young woman whose life “sucks” in the midst of prosperity: In my experience (I readily grant all of the problems with drawing inferences from individual and anecdotal observation), highly eligible men in my social set delay marriage for no good . . . . Continue Reading »
The fascinating J.L. Wall at THE LEAGUE OF ORDINARY GENTLEMEN notices that I invented the right term for the wonderful Marilynne Robinson. He adds that means that she’s neither a liberal nor a conservative. It does mean that she thinks everyone should work and everyone should be educated for . . . . Continue Reading »
Those who know more on Bradbury’s bio can fill us in on the question of his religion, but at the least, he was a writer making a sane and conservative use of our longingly imaginative leaps into the future. A stark contrast to the now-forlorn future-faith of folks like rock critic Simon . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s a charming introduction to the film, emphasizing probably too much its Christian dimension. The (one emotionally and one completely) abandoned children carry civilization (literally and emotionally) with them in their escape to their own part of the island of New Penzane and remain . . . . Continue Reading »
John P’s review below is exceptionally fine. Peter O’Toole is, of course, one of our most subtly manly actors. MY FAVORITE YEAR, for example. Movies I’ve seen lately. MEN IN BLACK 3—no alien character development at all (the strength of the first one). BLUE LIKE . . . . Continue Reading »
I explain here. . . . . Continue Reading »
Does anyone not know the story of Icarus? . . . let us imagine that young Icarus manages to actually live through this ordeal: he falls back into the labyrinth . . . bruised but still alive. . . . He has to go back to normal life after having thought himself capable of attaining the sun . . . Today . . . . Continue Reading »
There has been much hype surrounding Ridley Scott’s movie Prometheus released today. An alleged prequel to the sci-fi/horror/thriller classic Alien (1979), the director Scott was always hesitant to speak of it in such prequel terms, and instead spoke of it in larger and vaguer terms—and . . . . Continue Reading »
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