HERE . So I’m trying to finish a paper/chapter comparing Tocqueville and Percy on the pop Cartesian “I” who’s at the core of the democratic idea of freedom. It’s certainly good news that no materialistic/impersonal/Darwinian/neuroscientifc account of nature can . . . . Continue Reading »
To continue where we left off in Songbook #14, rock intellectualizing not only involves dismissal of the musically fine, but also of intellectually fine. It’s very activity demonstrates its ambivalence toward the core activity of the life of the mind, the wrestling with thinkers of first rank. . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s two separate issues . . . I agree with Pete that encouraging Ryan to enter the race is to fall short of endorsing him. It’s even a kind of desperation move based on pessimistic premises. Despite his lack of managerial experience and all that, Kate in the thread below is right to . . . . Continue Reading »
John Stott has passed away. The English evangelical leader who inspired so many American believers. When I was a student leader in InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, it was a source of pride that our organization was linked to this man. He’s probably most famous for Basic Christianity and The . . . . Continue Reading »
Postmodern and conservative readers and bloggers especially welcome. The facts are HERE . . . . . Continue Reading »
Andrew Sullivan , one of America’s most prolific and admired bloggers, reports (with a generous quote and a link that helped my ratings significantly) that I’m fascinated with THE HELP. Right he is. Maybe it doesn’t take much to fascinate me. But he also quotes another expert who . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s a very fine essay criticizing the Coen Brother’s film for omitting so much from the original Charles Portis book and adding so much also. It’s the essay our Robert Cheeks wanted to read back in January, when we pomocons went nuts over the film in several threads, and it . . . . Continue Reading »
This part is on the aristocratic characer of Eugenia . . . . . Continue Reading »
One’s own self is hard to get around. I have pictures of me standing in school pictures of the whole first or second grade class. It was a photograph of the whole lot of us kids, and when the print was made my eyes would look at that group and greedily find myself first. How did I look? Was I . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter, here’s the link for the The New Republic piece on Perry’s “convenient conversion to radical evangelicalism.” What the conversion amounts to, outside of political moves, is this: “ . . . growing up Methodist, [Perry] belonged to the mainline tradition that counts . . . . Continue Reading »
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