One disadvantage to living in the sticks not emphasized by the Porchers is that it deprives the blogger of being able to provide cutting-edge analysis of new films. So I’m ashamed to admit I haven’t seen Whit Stillman’s DAMSELS IN DISTRESS yet. That doesn’t prevent me from . . . . Continue Reading »
How to Succeed* in DC Anna Williams, Ignitum Today What’s the Matter with North Carolina? Nicholas Frankovich, The Corner Tolerance and Diversity at the Academy Mollie Hemingway, Richochet Van Gogh’s Collapse of Authority Hugh Eakin, Wall Street Journal Catholic . . . . Continue Reading »
Our president has reasonably caculated he can’t afford to look less “evolved” than what now appears to be a majority of Americans on the so-called “last civil rights issue.” Nobody can afford to look less evolved than VP Biden. But most troubling was Romney’s . . . . Continue Reading »
I warned in Culture of Death: The Assault on Medial Ethics in America that the bioethics movement had ambitions to influence life and public policy well beyond its sphere of influence in medicine and health-related laws and regulations. The title of an article published in . . . . Continue Reading »
At the risk of bringing the roof down on my head...The same California legislature that passed a law allowing minors to obtain abortions without any notice to parents, now has a bill pending that would prevent psychotherapists from providing services intended to alter a gay child’s . . . . Continue Reading »
I agree with Peter and Sean Trende that we shouldn’t worry too much about the state polls in North Carolina right now. If Obama wins North Carolina, it will be because he clearly won the national popular vote and North Carolina’s electoral votes will not have proved . . . . Continue Reading »
Lest the president feel bad about my criticisms of his gay marriage stance , I hasten to add that I think he’s gotten too much flak for his youthful musing on T.S. Eliot. The young future president wrote to his then-girlfriend: I haven’t read “The Waste Land” for a year . . . . . . . Continue Reading »
President Obama has come out in support of gay marriage today in an interview with ABC news . Well, that’s not quite right. He actually was in support of it back in 1996 before his position then “evolved” toward opposition. Today the dissembling ended, which may be good for . . . . Continue Reading »
This past weekend, the Wall Street Journal featured an interview with Robert Caro, who discussed the release of his fourth massive volume on the life of Lyndon Baines Johnson. Caro, whose biography of tyrannical urban planner Robert Moses ( The Power Broker ) is broadly considered one of the best . . . . Continue Reading »
A man in North Carolina spent each month of last year trying out a new religion. Laughable religious tourism? Not so, says Peter Berger: “his story is emblematic of American religious pluralism and instructive for understanding the latter.” Berger continues: In the pluralistic situation . . . . Continue Reading »
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