A horrible tragedy occurred earlier this week, when a young white male walked into Emanuel A.M.E. church in historic Charleston, South Carolina, and killed nine congregation members. Unfortunately, many common responses to the massacre threaten to undermine efforts to seek real, substantive . . . . Continue Reading »
A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power by jimmy carter simon & schuster, 224 pages, $16 This book, Jimmy Carter’s latest, reads with all the intensity of a lullaby to liberal orthodoxy. Presenting a sympathetic face to the myriad forms of suffering that women experience in the . . . . Continue Reading »
Pope Francis Wants to Roll Back Progress. Is the World Ready?
Matthew Schmitz, Washington Post
The Real Lesson of the Stanford Prison Experiment
Maria Konnikova, New Yorker
Treasure in Heaven
Peter Brown, Lapham's Quarterly
Ditch the Summer Reading List
Stephanie Cohen, Acculturated
The Trouble with Gay Marriage
Brendan O'Neill, Spiked!
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I picked up Laura Moriarty’s The Chaperone (2012) because I am a sucker for novels about flappers and because I am a sucker generally. In the summer of 1922, fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks (real personage) takes a train from Wichita to New York, there to study modern dance with Denishawn (real dance troupe). She is chaperoned by Mrs. Cora Carlisle (fictional personage), the not-quite-middle-aged wife of a wealthy Wichitan attorney. Cora has ulterior reasons for making this trip:
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The Federal Reserve recently announced that the $10 dollar bill is getting a redesign: the founder of the treasury, Alexander Hamilton, is going to be replaced by a woman.The lucky (though deceased) lady has not yet been determined, and the Treasury is asking the public for input. Therefore I would . . . . Continue Reading »
Ran 7,000 Miles. Putin Still Got Them
Michael Weiss, Daily Beast
Witless Ape Rides Escalator
Kevin D. Williamson, National Review
The End of the Sex Abuse Crisis
Ross Douthat, New York Times
Benedict Option Baptists
Rod Dreher, The American Conservative
Daily Cartoon
Christopher Weyant, The New Yorker
Pope Francis Wants to Roll Back Modernity: Is the World Ready?
Matthew Schmitz, Washington Post
Those of us who know Ryan Anderson have certain adjectives that come naturally to mind when we think of the country's most visible and effective under-40 defender of the truth about marriage. (And if I thought about it, I might drop the “under-40” qualifier.) Fearless, composed, tenacious, . . . . Continue Reading »
“Everybody Worships”
Alissa Wilkinson, Books and Culture
The State of the American Mind: Anti-intellectualism in America more than 25 years after Allan Bloom.
Book Forum, American Enterprise Institute
Why the Pope's New Climate-Change Doctrine Matters
Emma Green, The Atlantic
The Only Path to Societal Renewal
Dan McConchie, The Gospel Coalition
You might wonder whether questions as complicated and wrenching for people as these should be handled by contract law, as if they were equivalent to particularly difficult business transactions. Continue Reading »
The Complexity of Being Richard Nixon
Evan Thomas, The Atlantic
Why Is Obama Abandoning 70 Years of U.S. Nonproliferation Policy?
Matthew Kroenig, Tablet
Millenials' Parents Can't Stop Meddling
Jennifer Senior, New York Magazine
Why Bloggers Are Calling it Quits
Amy Julia Becker, Christianity Today
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