Joseph Bottum

This, from the Princeton University newspaper , caught my eye: “New York Assemblyman and Minority Leader James Tedisco (R) said Tuesday that he will move to impeach Gov. Eliot Spitzer ‘81 if the embattled officeholder does not step down from his post by Thursday.” Isn’t . . . . Continue Reading »

In case you’ve been asleep the last twenty-four hours, here’s the news: New York’s crusading populist Democratic governor, the once-high-flying Eliot Spitzer, has been identified as “Client Number Nine” in the indictment of an international prostitution ring. MSNBC is . . . . Continue Reading »

A press release just arrived from the American Bible Society. I don’t see it on their website, so I thought I’d pass along the news, just in case you missed it. “Easter is a moveable feast, so to speak, because it is not fixed in relation to the civil calendar and every year when . . . . Continue Reading »

The New York Sun runs a little piece today by Eric Ormsby on W.H Auden, a notice of the publication of Auden’s Collected Prose, Volume III: 1949-1955 . It is a nice summary of the book, as one would expect from Ormsby, but along the way it quotes the last poem Auden wrote, the 1973 . . . . Continue Reading »

Out of California comes a court decision that denies any constitutional right to homeschool. The initial news reports made it sound bad , and the decision itself seems to go far beyond where it needed to. But Joseph Knippenberg , Richard Garnett , and even the libertarian legal bloggers at the . . . . Continue Reading »

In the mail today came an extra-large tee-shirt from Wheaton College—more proof that the people out there on the plains west of Chicago are among the nicest people in the world. I visited the campus this week, but in the midst of the lecture I had to give and the television panel and the . . . . Continue Reading »

My obituary for William F. Buckley is online here at the Weekly Standard . A sad time for all who knew the man. . . . . Continue Reading »

I My wife dreams of Brazilian cities: Salvador da Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, enormous South American cityscapes of sunlit beaches and anonymity. She hasn’t lived in Brazil since she was a child, and she still imagines those cities as entirely happy and unselfconscious”even childish. Places . . . . Continue Reading »

So, I’m doing a little lecturing, here and there, over the next month or so. If you’re in the neighborhood, why not drop by? (1) The first is on Tuesday, March 4, at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, at the spring conference of the Center for Applied Christian Ethics. The talk is . . . . Continue Reading »

On March 17 at 7:00 pm, I’ll be giving a lecture at Georgetown University’s ICC Auditorium called "Living with the Dead: Why Cities Need Cemeteries and Nations Need Memorials. " The respondents will be the New Criterion ’s Roger Kimball , National Endowment for the Arts . . . . Continue Reading »