I have to say my Glee predictions turned out to be truer and materialize faster than I...
Chris Dierkes
Chris Dierkes (aka CJ Smith). 29 years old, happily married, adroit purveyor and voracious student of all kinds of information, theories, methods of inquiry, and forms of practice. Studying to be a priest in the Anglican Church in Canada. Main interests: military theory, diplomacy, foreign affairs, medieval history, religion & politics (esp. Islam and Christianity), and political grand bargains of all shapes and sizes.
Dateline: Vancouver, BCÂ April 20th I’m starting to think 4/20 is a conspiracy perpetrated by the McDonalds...
Michael Lind with a sharp piece in The Daily Beast reflecting on his 2001 book (co-authored with...
With talk of financial regulation and fraud charges for Goldman Sachs in the air, this piece by...
Andrew Tabler has an important (if possibly a little too alarmist) piece in Foreign Policy on the...
Glee returns tomorrow night for the second half of its first season. What should be its only...
Today is the Launch Day for a new website Scott and I (Chris) are working on. Â Have...
Freddie writes: To those who say that I am not disagreeing with Harris, I’m a bit confused:...
— From the Wiki on Holy Saturday, called The Holy Sabbath in the Eastern Orthodox Tradition: In...
Good Friday Prayer from the Eastern Orthodox tradition: Today He who hung the earth upon the waters...
In the Western* Christian Liturgical Calendar we are in the midst of Holy Week and fast approaching...
Steve Clemons in a must read for today.
So I had a cut on the side of my nose the other day that has scarred...
And now for something completely non Philip Blond related…. A foreign policy rant. Â (I don’t know what...
Peter Atwater writes (concerning the fears of a double dip recession): Unfortunately, from my perspective there have...
Goes to JosephFM (comment #5) to my earlier post on Philip Blond and Michael Sandel.
Two of the League’s brethren attended Philip Blond’s lecture at Georgetown last week. Â Will’s review here, David’s...
As a boy raised in churches, with a profound love of the black church tradition of the...
In the comments to my earlier post on Israel/Palestine, North and Michael Drew got into a very...
Stephen Walt thinks that the latest spat between Israel and the US is grounds for bringing back...
