I remember being in Rome more than ten years ago and developing a nice camaraderie with the hotel clerk. As we talked about our respective countries, he told me that he was beside himself, to the point of endangering his health, about what he perceived to be the casual corruption and mendacity . . . . Continue Reading »
As regular readers of SHS know, I worry a lot about the growing trend to instrumentalize human life and use it as a natural resource. Thus, I have opposed federal funding of ESCR, human cloning, redefining death for organ harvesting purposes, fetal farming, etc.I think there is a real ethical . . . . Continue Reading »
A Saudi court has ruled in favor of the public display of a crucifix , despite a Kingdom-wide ban on Christian symbols. The only proviso is that a beheaded human body has to be attached to it: RIYADH (Reuters) - A Saudi court of cassation upheld a ruling to behead and crucify a 22-year-old man . . . . Continue Reading »
So I was more than a bit astonished to see the web attention given to my previous post on David Bentley Hart’s book. I didn’t know that my “screed” would require James’s spirited defense, and I certainly didn’t know I was accusing metaphysical Mormons or Humeans . . . . Continue Reading »
I just read an excellent reflection on the role of community in the church by MacKenzie Groff. [We knew MacKenzie and her husband during her time in graduate school, when they attended our . . . . Continue Reading »
For almost a decade the “emergent” movement has been a peculiar subculture on the borders of evangelical Christianity. Members of the movement—or “conversation” as they prefer to call it—tend to be known more for their cultural choices (Likes: tattoos, cussing, . . . . Continue Reading »
In the In the First Circle: The First Uncensored Edition, there is a striking scene that I’d like to highlight. Most of the characters in the book inhabit one of the Moscow Sharaskas in the early 50s. A Sharaska was a special prison camp, unlike the work camps, the conditions of these camps . . . . Continue Reading »
Having just received my own review copy of A New Literary History of America from Harvard University Press, I was intrigued to read Mark Bauerlein and Priscilla Ward’s email exchange on the book over at The Chronicle of Higher Education . Unsurprisingly, the book does not just focus on . . . . Continue Reading »
I woke up to discover that more or less everything I wanted to say last night about Ron Rosenbaum’s misbegotten hit job on Hannah Arendt and her conception of the banality of evil has been said this morning at length by Steven Menashi at the American Scene. (Extra fun: in touching on Carlin . . . . Continue Reading »
In the Lord of the Rings films, British actor Ian McKellen played Gandalf, a wizard who helps protect Middle-earth from the forces of evil. But in real he plays a censor, protecting hotel guests from the nefarious collaboration of Moses and the Gideons: Details: Is it true that when you stay at . . . . Continue Reading »
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