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Terrence Malick’s Openness to Life

William Randolph Brafford

Terrence Malick has baffled many of the film critics who once championed him. His detractors call his latest film, Knight of Cups, an “indecipherable mess” or “hard to parse.”...

George C. Scott Explains Calvinism

William Randolph Brafford

From Hardcore, directed by Paul Schrader. N.B. A little high-proof language at the end, a lot of high-proof Calvinism throughout.

Calvinist Schooling

William Randolph Brafford

I’m a little envious when my friends start swapping stories about their Catholic schooling. There are common, particularly Catholic experiences shared among students at parochial schools whether they grow...

On Microfame

William Randolph Brafford

I read Rob Horning’s  New Inquiry  essay on  “Microfame”  with over a decade’s worth of my own blogging and social media use flashing before my eyes. The essay is...

Django Unchained’s Moment of Moral Clarity

William Randolph Brafford

Two notes: First, the movie under discussion is violent and profane; don’t see it unless you’re comfortable with that. Second,  spoilers follow.  I wish the statement “it comes very...

More on Symbolic v. Aristotelian Logic

William Randolph Brafford

I’ve learned much about logic in the week and a half since my  previous post here . In that little missive, I wrote about a  Peter Kreeft essay  that...

In Defense of Symbolic Logic: A Response to Peter Kreeft

William Randolph Brafford

Peter Kreeft has written an article for Touchstone called ” Clashing Symbols: The Loss of Aristotelian Logic & the Social, Moral, & Sexual Consequences .” The thinking goes as...