The Intelligent Design Community and ME

. . . That underrated community likes my view that Darwinian natural rights is an oxymoron. This post is double-down shameless self-promotion, insofar as it also includes a way of getting to an article of mine in the great NEW ATLANTIS. I myself am not a member of the intelligent design community, . . . . Continue Reading »

Friendship

Allan Bloom wrote a beautiful book on love and friendship. In this book he examined issues that emerge between lovers and friends. He also provided a shorthand for those who merely skim great writers, but who have in their actual lives experienced great love and friendship in their lives (but in . . . . Continue Reading »

Film Studies: Captain America

Saw it last week and I’m still not entirely sure what I think.  It was a very enjoyable action movie.  It was also unambiguously pro-American, though as Alyssa Rosenberg pointed out it, had trouble incorporating the WWII-era Army’s racial segregation in a satisfying . . . . Continue Reading »

JPII on US

The film Nine Days That Changed The World is about JPII’s pilgrimage to Poland in 1979 while it was still under the Soviet Union’s control.  It documents the uproar his visit caused and how fragile the Communist hold over that country really was.  His stay sparked the Solidarity . . . . Continue Reading »

Complicated Life

In the spirit of Carl’s music posts, I figured I may as well do more than defend good American bar bands like NRBQ. So like Carl, I will take a page from the ‘60s too and speak of the ’60s band The Kinks, but I will do it from the early ‘70s instead of the ‘60s. Namely, I . . . . Continue Reading »