1. Being too lazy or full of Christmas reverie to think up my own post, I’ll just say something about the interesting recent comments of our own James Poulos. 2. It’s now clear that I’ll have to see AVATAR, just to be against it in an informed way. My original strategy was to skip . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at the Voegelin View website, Fritz Wagner has the first two parts of a four part essay titled, “Medieval Rationalism or Mystic Philosophy” by Dr. Ellis Sandoz the editor of the Collected Works of Eric Voegelin. The essay originally appeared in a compilation of essays titled, Faith . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . a bleepin’ KINDLE . As Susan McWilliams observes, it amounts to a techno-surrender of “readerly independence” with no obvious benefit. I’m glad I don’t live on some agrarian frontier where all I have around the house are Shakespeare and the Bible (both very . . . . Continue Reading »
So I just finished writing an essay defending the Bush/Kass “dignified moral conflict” approach to bioethics from the coming Obama “expert consensus” approach. Here’s an excerpt: Scientific experts are surely right that if our moods are merely random collections of . . . . Continue Reading »
Now that the semester is almost over, a brief follow up to the discussion about the place of conservatism in the university . . . . . . reading this piece about Donald Livingston and the Abbeville Institute got me thinking: what new books about conservative thought would it be beneficial for . . . . Continue Reading »
Judge Jones of Florida says yes—in the legal sense of the word. But some of his colleagues claim that he’s out of touch with the way young people think. . . . . Continue Reading »
The good : Iraq no longer has a civil war. Lots of countries have terrorist problems. So read what Doug Ollivant had to say to the skeptical NPR reporter and begin to assess the significance of the fact that our president was wrong in Oslo to say we’re now fighting two wars. . . . . Continue Reading »
For those postmodern conservatives (and even porchers) wondering what to give ME this year, the gift that will keep on giving is the meticulously enhanced Criterion DVD of the best film by America’s best filmmaker, THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO. Here’s a fine interview with Whit Stillman that . . . . Continue Reading »
Rarely do Joe Carter and MAKE Magazine point me towards the same online curiosity . The intersection of topology and breakfast must have considerable ecumenical appeal. I’m going to turn Hart’s challenge around, however: now that you know how to create two interlocking bagel-halves by . . . . Continue Reading »
The distant rattle of skirmish fire was overheard this afternoon at the Porch. One wonders if we’re in for a full policy review, or just the hurtling of innocuous insult? . . . . Continue Reading »
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