Friday August 17, 2012 We don’t do hunger strikes any more. News that doesn’t stultify. The Specter of Military Defeat. Deja vu all over again, GM bailout edition. Robert George’s sour note. Abolitionist Feminism. Red Tory tax proposal. Continue reading “Friday August 17, 2012” →
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 The Next Big Idea Is Small. Idolatries Left and Right. The Enamel of Our Souls. Swastika Laundry, Ballsbridge. Empty Promises and electability. Continue reading “Tuesday, August 14, 2012” →
Monday, August 13, 2012 Phase-outs in the interregnum. Ray Ewry, Second Greatest Olympian Ever. New Agey hokum at the LCWR confab. Mike Lofgren’s Ack-Bassward GOP diagnosis. Legal conundrum. Infinitely Indigestible? A Poetic plea from one time has passed by. Continue reading “Monday, August 13, 2012” →
Friday, August 10, 2012 Sikhism and Orthodox Christianity. The Human Miracle of Thought Transference. Reason and Legerdemain. Two kinds of Christians. Continue reading “Friday, August 10, 2012” →
Thursday, August 9, 2012 A Rabbi goes to bat for his tradition – and mine. Two cheers for sequestration. The Secret Unity of Muslims and Sikhs. America’s Enlightenment, and Evangelical, Foundings. NIMBY and The Good Life. The Absurdity of Categorical Discrimination Bans. Geddoutahere! Continue reading “Thursday, August 9, 2012” →
Wednesday, August 8, 2012 Old Book Review by a Master. Truth in Political Reporting. Eternal Vigilance Alert. Faith in Faith? Was Poe a “Great Poet” (if only in French)? Continue reading “Wednesday, August 8, 2012” →
Tuesday, August 7, 2012 Something’s got to give. The goal of reading, and of the Christian. Family, friendship, and solitude. Exodus: Liberation or Liturgy? Comparative religion. Libertarian deceit and delusion. Make Money and Mind Your Own Business. Continue reading “Tuesday, August 7, 2012” →
Friday August 3, 2012 Ideological Crossovers. Everything’s political, everything’s “culture wars.” SSM & ART. Poetry from the Fearmonger Shop. A dubious world record. Continue reading “Friday August 3, 2012” →
Thursday, August 2, 2012 Conservatism: “high church” and “low church.” Legendary TV, 1968. Introversion, individualism, Plague. Ain’t gonna study war no mo. One more drought silver lining. The reasons for partisanship. Continue reading “Thursday, August 2, 2012” →
Wednesday, August 1, 2012 Scientific Religion? Was Christ fully human in utero? “Public Reason” is, ironically, sectarian. Impotent President, Impotent Citizens. Death seizes the doctor. Continue reading “Wednesday, August 1, 2012” →
