Daily Archive: April 5, 2009

Goldberg Variations

Down-blog, Freddie takes a few shots at Jeffrey Goldberg: This is like an awful lot of other things that Goldberg is perpetually aggrieved about. The way that he threads the needle between holding views...

Sunday Poem series

The Kraken by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Below the thunders of the upper deep; Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee About his shadowy...

The Limits of Secularization

Secularization is part of a long trend toward moral liberalization. That the Iowa Supreme Court would unanimously rule prohibition of gay marriage illegal when a decade ago this would have seemed impossible is just...