The Paris Review , the literary journal co-founded by George Plimpton, has posted online its extensive archive of interviews with famous literary figures. The site includes interviews with TS Eliot , William Faulkner , Ralph Ellison , Ernest Hemingway , Simone de Beauvoir , Saul Bellow , . . . . Continue Reading »
The story of an unlikely friendship between George Bernard Shaw and the heavyweight fighter Gene Tunney, Brains, Brawn and an Unlikely Bond . They even spent a month on holiday together in 1929. Two stories about men from Salon.com: Men Edge Into Women’s Marathons (the jerks) and . . . . Continue Reading »
Good grief! A woman underwent the most extreme surgery imaginable to be cured from cancer. She was literally cut apart. From the story:A Canadian woman is the first patient to undergo an operation in which doctors cut her body in half to remove a tumor—and survive. Janis Ollson, 31, was . . . . Continue Reading »
We have discussed the injunction issued by Judge Royce C. Lamberth against President Obama’s ESCR funding policy—and the mendacious legislative response of the likes of Arlen Specter that would authorize the Feds to fund cloning research in addition to restoring Obama’s more . . . . Continue Reading »
George Weigel’s The Pius Wars, Continued is now up on “On the Square.” . . . . Continue Reading »
Christians in India suffer the effects of the acts of individual Americans, reports the leader of a mission agency , who said Muslim mobs in India destroyed a church and a school in response to the burning of the Koran in Michigan. Although things appear to have settled down now, the incident . . . . Continue Reading »
In Founding Believers , today’s “On the Square” article, Joe Carter argues that the majority of America’s founding fathers — eight of the thirteen he evaluates — were not, as some like to claim, Christians, but Deists of one sort or another. Coming a little later: . . . . Continue Reading »
Every few years, some attention-seeking scientific researcher (usually a meteorologist, which is sort of like a scientist) attempts to sucker journalists and bloggers into writing about how their computer model explains how the parting of the Red Sea in the book of Exodus could really happen . This . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s the job of the professor, according to many influential theorists who belong to the MLA. Anyone who doesn’t teach in opposition to the hegemonic establishment shouldn’t get to teach. The job of the professor is to transform the young by authoritatively encouraging them to . . . . Continue Reading »
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