A “mammoth analysis of jobs data being released today by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce” bears on the subject of David Goldman’s Americans Who’ll Never Work Again , though it deals with a different group of people facing long-term . . . . Continue Reading »
“If you look past the Bible-study scenes, young-adult novels from evangelical authors and publishers are offering their young Christian readers a surprisingly empowering guide to adolescence,” claims a writer for Slate. (The writer is not so positive about them as this opening claim . . . . Continue Reading »
I am now writing a regular column On the Square; today’s installment about permanent unemployment is up this . . . . Continue Reading »
“How many Americans will never work again? Perhaps a lot,” notes David P. Goldman in today’s “On the Square” article, Americans Who’ll Never Work Again . Using worrying figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, he draws out the implications of our . . . . Continue Reading »
Here I am again at the writer’s desk with a tall glass of lemonade, ready to analyze two passages that invoke “the Genius” of the land in Willa Cather’s novel O Pioneers! In the first passage, we witness the retrospective despair of John Bergson, a first generation pioneer in . . . . Continue Reading »
Declaring that it would be better for tomato plants to be dead than enslaved to tomato growers, the ATLF has poisoned seedlings to liberate them from a lifetime of slavery before having the fruit of their labors cruelly picked and consumed. From the story:Tomato prices could double or triple . . . . Continue Reading »
Throughout Church history, theological controversy has been one of the enduring features. Name any communion or denomination and you will find one which has struggled with this matter. St. Maximus the Confessor was imprisoned, exiled, and lost his tongue and compared to many he got off easy. For . . . . Continue Reading »
I recently read a biography of Henry Luce. He was the co-founder of Time magazine and founded Life, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and other prime American media properties. He co-founded Time with a Yale classmate who died young.The book, Henry Luce: His . . . . Continue Reading »
They’ve done it before and the’ll do it again: An animal rights group infiltrated a true believer into an animal industry under false pretenses. That person tapes the daily occurrences of the business and finds snippents that could be made to appear to (or do) involve . . . . Continue Reading »
The July issue of Playboy ’s Portuguese edition features an unlikely cover model: Jesus. Our Lord also makes an appearance within the magazine, posing beatifically next to semi-topless women. The imagery has an ostensibly literary purpose: As Robert Quigley notes, Last month, Nobel literature . . . . Continue Reading »
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