Peter Lawler

Here’s a charming introduction to the film, emphasizing probably too much its Christian dimension. The (one emotionally and one completely) abandoned children carry civilization (literally and emotionally) with them in their escape to their own part of the island of New Penzane and remain . . . . Continue Reading »

John P’s review below is exceptionally fine. Peter O’Toole is, of course, one of our most subtly manly actors. MY FAVORITE YEAR, for example. Movies I’ve seen lately. MEN IN BLACK 3—no alien character development at all (the strength of the first one). BLUE LIKE . . . . Continue Reading »

I explain here. . . . . Continue Reading »

Darwinian Larry likes my comparison of him and Sheldon Cooper. Larry continues to have a rather traditional Southern Baptist view—“I’ll fly away”—of heaven. Still, his questions are serious. If you scroll through his most serious website, he considers the possibility . . . . Continue Reading »

I haven’t. . . . . Continue Reading »

. . . is described pretty well in THE NEW REPUBLIC. This author claims that decline is a major cause of our growing inquality, sinking middle class and all that. I agree it is a cause, although not the most powerful one. Our Kate and her interlocutors describe other causes, as does Charles Murray, . . . . Continue Reading »

I explain to big thinkers why I’m glad. . . . . Continue Reading »

. . . is today. I thought I’d compensate for the deficiency in conservative manliness I displayed below by reminding you. You could go the RCP and read Reagan’s very thoughtful—dense in the good sense—1984 speech. You could remember how many casualties were expected as a . . . . Continue Reading »

1. Thanks so much to KATE for energizing a thread that surpasses in quantity and quality even those that we had in the good ol’ NLT days. The facts are lonely, sinking single moms and repulsively unmanly men. The causes remain a bone of contention. I’m not blaming the welfare state all . . . . Continue Reading »

Jon Shields says a lot in a few words. Don’t know why a catchy title didn’t come to me. For feminists, the puzzle is why “the right to choose” hasn’t experienced the same success as other Civil Rights initiatives. One answer is that people and especially young women . . . . Continue Reading »