I’m catching some flack for daring to criticize Sarah Palin’s sophmoric (in my view) advocacy about “death boards” and “evil” in Obamacare. If Palin is going to have impact beyond her own choir, she needs to improve her game. And I didn’t say she . . . . Continue Reading »
No high art here, just a miscellany of lovely little things, such as I might actually have in my actual house (beneath the current avalanche of cross-shaped coffee tables and recliners and dangly lamps and kapok pillows). Here’s another little gilt triptych, very much like the one which lives on . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s another installment in my “What Was History (with a Capital H)?” The End of History in the strong or revolutionary sense was discredited by the Marxist tyrannies that turned people into history fodder and nothing more. That doesnt mean that we arent surrounded . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Postmodern Conservative , Ivan Kenneally follows First Things ’ contributing writer Yuval Levin’s latest writings on healthcare issues. . . . . Continue Reading »
Perhaps, says David E. Anderson in an interesting review essay on a number of recent books of criticism on the sacramental element in poetry. . . . . Continue Reading »
No, that headline didn’t come from The Onion (or Lark News ) but from this Fox News story on howare you ready for this?some evangelicals are encouraging young people to marry . Despite the eye-rolling headline and being thirty years late in noticing the “evangelicals are . . . . Continue Reading »
Somebody tell Peter Singer: Almost nobody believes anymore that infants are insensate blobs. It seems both mad and evil to deny experience and feeling to a laughing gurgling creature. Still, there has to be some point in development when consciousness isn’t present, and though it is logically . . . . Continue Reading »