Tuesday July 31, 2102

  1. What’s a liberal arts education without poetry?
  2. Satan, in Paradise Lost.
  3. Is it schismatic not to commune schismatics?
  4. Fukuyama on Rooseveltian Republicanism.
  5. Slow Money.
  6. Built Environment.
  7. Mark T. Mitchell on the même of “culture wars.”
  8. Freedom of Worship, Freedom of Religion, and line drawing.

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Has the Sexual Revolution been good for women?

Sometimes I write to see what I think. I’m pretty sure I know what I think – or at least what my gut tells me – on the subject at hand (Has the Sexual Revolution been good for women?), but four pieces in this weekend’s Wall Street Journal provide a convenient way to revisit the issue. I apologize if there’s a paywall in front of the pieces I discuss, but it’s not to late to run off to Starbuck or Barnes & Noble (nice local businesses, eh?) to score a dead tree version. Continue reading “Has the Sexual Revolution been good for women?” →

Tasty Tidbits 9/28/11

  1. Ayn Rand on the multiplication of criminal laws.
  2. What is a “progressive”?
  3. Where are the progressives (whatever they are)?
  4. Another impending execution. Yawn!
  5. 2 kinds of “peak oil.”
  6. Andrew Sullivan’s lazy slander.
  7. School as “a place apart.”
  8. Some God the gift to gie us …
  9. Why write?

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