Once upon a time in a Kingdom by the wine-dark sea, there lived a very silly king. Like most kings of his day, his kingdom was very small, but he had better people than he deserved. The castle was famous for its intricate design and the care the servants took with it. The King was also blessed with . . . . Continue Reading »
In ” Marriage and the Law of Tradition ,” a new posting on Public Discourse, R. J. Snell recounts the reasons St. Thomas gives authority to tradition. St. Thomas viewed the laws of society (a notion that encompassed written laws as well as social norms) as subject to rational scrutiny. . . . . Continue Reading »
When I first heard about Dinesh D’Souza’s theory that President Obama can best be understood through the framework of Kenyan anticolonialism I thought it was a joke. It seemed like it’d make a clever, table-turning satire of pseudo-academic pretensions. But the D’souza turned . . . . Continue Reading »
We’ve discussed this before—promoting suicide as a prophylactic against the pain of expected future grief. For example, the Canadian assisted suicide advocate Ruth Von Fuchs specifically supported a woman who wanted to commit suicide with her terminally ill husband at the Swiss . . . . Continue Reading »
My friends at The Tablet, a Jewish-interest webzine, are running a week-long series on Turkey’s ominous shift to Islamism. The editors write:The transformation of Turkey from close military and strategic ally to bitter public enemy may be the most consequential blow Israel has sustained in the . . . . Continue Reading »
“‘May his name be blotted out!’ declares the most terrible Hebrew curse,” begins the latest Spengler column, written by our senior editor David P. Goldman. History has devised a curse more terrible still, that is, to have one’s memory blotted out, all except for a name . . . . Continue Reading »
If I told you that an American church was having a Dr. Seuss themed supper and communion, how many guesses would I have to give you before you figured out it was Episcopalian church? Just one? That’s what I thought. Who else would have a “Seusscharist”? Here’s the announcement . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Ross D. judiciously notes that this large and diverse movement that is the Tea Party includes both strange and fringey and responsible and sensible elements. There are some Birchers, racists, conspiracy theorists, hyper-libertarians, and perhaps a few ex-witches. But the center of the Tea Party . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s “On the Square,” article, No Mere Christianity , I discuss the defects of Lewis’s famous idea and its most famous expression as a way of understanding Christian unity. It is, I think, implicitly imperialistic. . . . . Continue Reading »
Extracts from today’s Spengler essay at Asia Times Online:http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LJ19Ak01.htmlWhy call not it a ‘Petraeus Village’?By Spengler“May his name be blotted out!” declares the most terrible Hebrew curse. History has devised a curse more . . . . Continue Reading »
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