Because I really, really like this latest Ross Douthat column skewering Ivy League monopolism/elitism . His excuse for commenting comes from the silly dust-up over the Susan Patton letter advising young Princeton women to take their dating possibilities for finding a good husband during their four . . . . Continue Reading »
In Bayles’ telling, rap’s old school period was not just prior to the advent of rich sampling, but also prior to what we might call the gangsta-rap scam . Old-school rapping did the dozens, did f-bomb-dropping comedy, did “battle rap” exhibitions of verbal prowess, and was . . . . Continue Reading »
Next weekend, the Center for Irish and Irish-American Studies at NYU will host a conference marking the bicentennial of People v. Phillips , an early freedom-of-religion case involving the priest-penitent privilege: “ Religious Freedom in America, 1813 to 2013: Bicentennial Reflections . . . . Continue Reading »
Last summer, a federal appeals court ruled that a Wisconsin public high school could not hold its graduation ceremonies in a rented Evangelical church sanctuary. To do so, the court ruled, posed too great a risk of government coercion, proselytism, and endorsement of religion. Three . . . . Continue Reading »
Rand Paul has an impressive combination of ideology, determination and pragmatism. He has, as Allahpundit has written, the ability to “sell libertarian wine in conservative bottles.” He matters, and so it matters if aspects of Rand Paul’s particular style of libertarianism would . . . . Continue Reading »
Micah Mattix analyzes the first line of The Wasteland : Eliot’s “April is the cruellest month” is not so much about his conflicted response to spring (rooted in some forgotten childhood trauma) or about creating a linguistic puzzle to help us develop our skills of attention but about . . . . Continue Reading »
When Brandon Ambrosino told his English professor at Liberty University, a conservative Christian college, that he was gay, he was surprised by her reaction : “I love you,” she said. I stopped crying for a second and looked up at her. Here was this conservative, pro-life, pro-marriage . . . . Continue Reading »
Fred Luter, the current president of the Southern Baptist Convention, caused a theological controversy last week. On a radio show March 27th, the host asked Luter whether he believed that North Korea’s sabre rattling had anything to do with God judging America for debating same-sex marriage. . . . . Continue Reading »
Dominic Gondreau’s Special Vocation Paul Gondreau, Huffington Post There Will Likely Be No Methodist Schism Mark Tooley, Juicy Ecumenism Who Was Athanasius Kircher? Paula Findlen, The Nation Being Gay at Falwell’s University Brandon Ambrosino, Atlantic Karl Barth and Three Forms of . . . . Continue Reading »
This “Spring” semester, my Songbook is movin’ like a tortoise, full of rigor mortis , but hey, I can at least throw you a few tidbits at you until the next post: 1) In California recently, gave my True Grit paper to favorable reaction, was delighted to meet pomocon commenter CJ . . . . Continue Reading »
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