. . . because a devastating attack from North Korea is promised tomorrow. I really don’t know what to make of this. I agree, of course, with Carl on the tyranno-pathological character of the regime. That means, of course, that we can’t be sure they won’t do something really . . . . Continue Reading »
Feminism of the primitive observance meets Third-wave feminism in this unusual story . Calliope Wong, who self-identifies as neither male nor female, applied to the famously “lifestyle left” and female-only Smith College, only to be turned down on grounds of gender. The story, . . . . Continue Reading »
Anna Williams on Romeo and Juliet : Alyssa Rosenberg argues on Slate that Romeo and Juliet “is full of terrible, deeply childish ideas about love.” She’s quite right . . . because that’s the point of the play. Reading the text, instead of . . . . Continue Reading »
The New York C. S. Lewis Society will host our own David Mills for a lecture on the great Inkling next week here in Manhattan: “A Writer Looks at How Lewis Wrote So Well” Friday, April 12 7:30 p.m. The Parish House of The Church of the Ascension . . . . Continue Reading »
I recently reviewed David Swartz’s Moral Minority for Books & Culture . Swartz is a gifted writer, and his book was a pleasure to read. David’s history of the evangelical left is a pleasure to read (and it should be so even for those on the opposite side of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Gene Edward Veith, author of God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in all of Life and Family Vocation: God’s Calling in Marriage, Parenthood, and Childhood (among numerous other books), has a new article on vocation over at Intercollegiate Review . In that article— “How to find your . . . . Continue Reading »
The Bitter Fool David Yezzi, New Criterion The First Pope Francis Book Mark Judge, RealClearBooks Lordship, Millennialism, and Heresy Stelios Vasilis Perdios, Medievalists Urban Planning and the Church ‘Halo Effect’ Lorna Dueck, Globe & Mail Orthodoxy & Oprah-doxy Napp . . . . Continue Reading »
The framers of the North Carolina Constitution of 1776 made it abundantly clear as to what kind of people they wanted to serve in their new state government. Article 32 states: That no person who shall deny the being of God, or the truth of the Protestant religion, or the divine . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, I don’t really know. But that’s what we need right now. Any ideas about where to go for the best reporting and analysis on this? Meantime, a pretty solid blog, Robert Koehler’s Marmot’s Hole , is probably the best bet, even though Robert’s skill-set is more . . . . Continue Reading »
The Crossroads Cultural Center, in conjunction with the American Bible Society, will be hosting a presentation by applied scientist Dr. Giorgio Ambrosio and professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Delaware and First Things Advisory Council member Stephen M. Barr . . . . . Continue Reading »
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