King James Leaves Cleveland
by Mary Rose SomarribaA voice was heard in Cleveland, wailing and loud lamentation, Cleveland weeping for her children; she refused to be consoled, because he was no more . . . . . Continue Reading »
A voice was heard in Cleveland, wailing and loud lamentation, Cleveland weeping for her children; she refused to be consoled, because he was no more . . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the big stories today in Australia is of a Melbourne woman who has announced that she is traveling to Thailand to have sex selection IVF because it is against the law here. She just has to have a girl, don’t you know! From the story:A MELBOURNE mum is so desperate to . . . . Continue Reading »
[Note: Every Friday on First Thoughts we host a discussion about some aspect of pop culture. Todays theme is greatest children’s toys. Have a suggestion for a topic? Send them to me at jcarter@firstthings.com.] Although the topic for last week was faddish objects from childhood , the . . . . Continue Reading »
Mark Shea penned an excellent primer on clericalism yesterday at Catholic Exchange , identifying it as a prominent culprit in the cover-up mentality among some members of the episcopacy. While the Church does not operate on the principle of vox populi, vox Dei , Shea argues, neither has . . . . Continue Reading »
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 »