I’m just rambling a bit this morning. What’s wrong with the CIVIC ENGAGEMENT movement in higher education is that it aims to eradicate dissent. No more time for thought, it’s time for action, the issues are clear and critical. And they have to with global warming, inequality, and . . . . Continue Reading »
So tomorrow, word has it, the Supreme Court will release it’s decision in the cases concerning Prop 8 and DOMA. I.e., tomorrow we will get a same-sex-marriage ruling. Now the import of the decisions will depend on the cases, and so to understand them well, so as to avoid saying something . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m speaking of the just-issued The American Academy of Arts and Sciences report on the humanities in higher ed, the Heart of the Matter , released with snazzy blurb-testimonials to The Importance of the Humanities from George Lucas and others, and a NYT column by David Brooks. Brooks’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Major spoilers alert here, as Colin Brown gets me thinking about the strangest and briefest scene in the great go-see-it-now film MUD, and suggests how it might be the key to understanding how it ends. He describes it thusly, on his Signpostings blog: One of the eeriest yet most profound visuals . . . . . Continue Reading »
Reihan Salam points to some of the budgetary and political problems related to denying food and health care subsidies to those who would be getting amnesty. You will have millions of people (many very poor and in mixed-status families). These people will be connected to their communities and care . . . . Continue Reading »
So an “indisciplinary research agenda” has been developing among postmodern conservatives over the last couple of years. I don’t have time to flesh it out, but it involves Texas and Arkansas and focuses especially on the status of southern virtue—incuding but not only the . . . . Continue Reading »
So you’ve now all had time to see MUD. Peter’s reading of it as something of a response to TRUE GRIT, and in dialogue with other films about how The South responds to American Modernity, is a promising and characteristically Lawlerian take. Jeff Nichols does seem just the kind of director . . . . Continue Reading »
So I saw the latest Superman. I wanted to like it, especially after Pete’s enthusiastic recommendation and Ramsey’s eloquently philosophical one in the thread. Too much of the movie is given over to boring fight scenes. It’s just never clear what you have to do to kill someone . . . . Continue Reading »
One thing (though far from the only thing) that makes me look forward to Peter Lawler posts is that they often help crystallize my thoughts. Peter writes about talking to the New Atlantis guys about assimilation, but I’m not so worried about assimilation per se. As a general rule, America is . . . . Continue Reading »
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