Over at Public Discourse today, I review Naomi Schaefer Riley’s book The Faculty Lounges , which R.R. Reno discussed here at FT last week . A sample of my take: Why are so many academic departments so ideologically homogeneous? Why are assistant professors so hard at work producing so . . . . Continue Reading »
A recent appellate court ruling in favor of a Westboro Baptist protester, says Carson Holloway , shows the decline of judicial ability to protect decency standards for public discourse: Rulings such as these do not arise merely from the preferences of liberal judges inclined to side with offensive . . . . Continue Reading »
Since the cruel dehydration death of Terri Schiavo in 2005, her family has been very active—through the foundation they created, now called the Terri Schindler Schiavo Life and Hope Network—speaking up and advocating for the equal moral worth of people with profound cognitive . . . . Continue Reading »
How can anyone be burned at the stake beheaded for “casting a spell” in the 21st Century? But that is what has just happened in Saudi Arabia, as a “sorcerer” was executed. From the story: According to the officer’s account Abdul Hamid agreed to carry out . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s what Plato wrote about democracy almost 2350 years ago: “ . . . do you notice how tender they make the citizen’s soul, so that if someone proposes anything that smacks in any way of slavery, they are irritated and can’t stand it? And they end up, as you well know, by . . . . Continue Reading »
What is black and white but leaves law-literate liberals shrieking and gibbering with fright? The anti-Obamacare brief from the public interest law arm of the Claremont Institute! I.e., for liberals, the ultimate CLAREMONSTER!!! . . . . Continue Reading »
What Sola Scriptura Does NOT Mean Credo House , C. Michael Patton The Great Orthodox Comeback Jewish Ideas Daily , Lawrence Grossman Divine Justice: The hidden story of Don Giovanni, Mozart’s Jewish opera Tablet , David Goldman In the Holy Land, a changed Christian world Associated Press What . . . . Continue Reading »
What is the EFSF? It’s the European Financial Stability Facility, silly! Don’t you keep up with European “politics?” Yes, yes, last week they were calling it the ESM, I think, but anyhow, here’s one of those fun little office-cooler cartoons (h/t Ricochet) to . . . . Continue Reading »
When writing yesterday’s “On the Square” column, Occupy Wall Street’s Empty Anger , I reread parts of George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier . The crowd at Zuccotti Park reminds me of the famous lines from the book in which Orwell describes the developed form . . . . Continue Reading »
So I was listening to some “wholesome” music that is worthwhile in its description of the ennui of modern eros, and this story came to mind (pardon the initial commercial on the video). Who wouldn’t like a pretty girl to call your own? Most young men wish to meet that sweet . . . . Continue Reading »
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