Over the last year or so, bloggers at First Things have taken the position that the animal rights...
Month: March 2010
This article at First Things by Robert R. Chase is a fascinating look at religious themes in...
Like Will, I was at Philip Blond’s Georgetown lecture on Thursday. Unlike Will, I was predisposed to...
Jack Gillis thinks the Blue Dogs’ days are numbered:
Following the meme, here are the ten books that changed my life the most. The Fountainhead by...
As a boy raised in churches, with a profound love of the black church tradition of the...
Friend of the Blog Sonny Bunch hangs up his spurs at Conventional Folly. He’ll be missed.
Debbie Schlussel calls Sean Hannity’s Freedom Alliance charity a scam. If a charity is only spending 12%...
If you’re looking for a good introduction to the Red Tories, David Brooks’ column does a much...
Your faithful correspondent donned a collared shirt and ventured into Georgetown last night to listen to Philip...
I’m going to make a few predictions about the future of U.S. healthcare, provided that the bill...
For a post with such seemingly low stakes, my recent musings on St. Patrick’s Day received an...
Will linked us to this piece by James Bowman earlier. Bowman writes: I mention this difference between...
WSJ: “He cited the case of a painter whose stock in trade had been portraits of Lenin....
In the comments to my earlier post on Israel/Palestine, North and Michael Drew got into a very...
Via Alan Jacobs, here’s an interesting critique of modern fantasy writing from The New Atlantis:
I’d just like to agree publicly with every last word of this piece by Glenn Greenwald: [T]he...
Thinking of the Kuhn discussion, I’d like to look at how a mythical culture understands an innovation...
Tyler Cowen and Peter Suderman have both compiled (non-definitive) lists of books which have influenced them the...