Happy Friday! Here’s what we’ve been talking about today . . . .
At Postmodern Conservative : Deneen and the Tea Party are basically anti-Federalists , Republicans are ignoring Yuval Levin, and George Will is being replaced .
Maureen Mullarkey says modern art ain’t bosh .
If you were to use the English subjunctive , you would make Dr. Boli happy. So happy, he might prescribe you medicine .
And over at On the Square, Wesley J. Smith points out that surrogacy colonizes the bodies of the poor, while Edward Feser wants to keep on talking about nothing (or, er, something).
That’s all for today. See you Monday! Kick back, relax, enjoy your weekend, have a drink, and don’t eat dogs.
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