Ryan Sayre Patrico

If you want to learn more about Van Halen and their M&M contract rider , This American Life recently dedicated a substantial segment of an episode called “Fine Print” to the story. . . . . Continue Reading »

At the New York Times , Laura A. Munson describes how, when her husband suddenly said “I don’t love you anymore,” she simply chose not to believe him. He eventually came out of it, and they didn’t divorce: Sure, you have your marital issues, but on the whole you feel so . . . . Continue Reading »

“The British pub was once a mainstay of working-class morality:” All over Britain, in town and village, in the suburbs and in the countryside, you will come across public houses, some still named from the animals—hare, hound, deer and fox; horse, cow, pig and cockerel—through . . . . Continue Reading »

At First Principles , Ralph C Wood reviews Julia Stapleton’s Christianity, Patriotism, and Nationhood: The England of G.K. Chesterton : In her still unsurpassed biography of G. K. Chesterton from 1943, Maisie Ward declared that the three great loves of the great man’s life were “his . . . . Continue Reading »

Emphasis on some : This spring in Massachusetts, a Catholic hospital system announced a joint venture with a secular company to provide insurance to the poor under the state’s universal health-care program. The venture fulfilled one pillar of Catholic social teaching—caring for the . . . . Continue Reading »

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From the Scientific American , via 3QuarksDaily , an article on “how to count to a zillion without falling off the end of the number line”: Last year the National Debt Clock in New York City ran out of digits. The billboard-size electronic counter, mounted on a wall near Times Square, . . . . Continue Reading »

By Robert Messenger: The cocktail is a lovely simple thing: a mixture of spirits and flavorings that whets the appetite, pleases the eye, and stimulates the mind. It is one of our conspicuous contributions to cultured living, up there with the Great American Songbook and the tuxedo. Yet, like . . . . Continue Reading »

The Intercollegiate Studies Institute has an online symposium on the always interesting and provocative Rémi Brague and his book The Law of God: The Philosophical History of an Idea . From the first installment : The Law of God is Brague’s second magisterial work of intellectual history. . . . . Continue Reading »

The wonderful Anthony Esolen: So the last two Popes have been saying, though always more politely than that. I have recently experienced, in a most dismaying way, what happens when an entire culture places faith under suspicion, and relies upon the weak reed of unassisted reason. For reason . . . . Continue Reading »