Ulysses

by Joseph Bottum

Over at National Review , the urbane Mike Potemra offers a short but entirely accurate paean to James Joyce’s Ulysses . Read it, then read the book . . . . . Continue Reading »

7 Aug 2009 0

The Real Vermont

by Will Wilson

I was deeply gratified to read Jack Ross’ paen to the Green Mountain Republic at Post Right. I would urge him, however, before going all Benedict Option on the place to consider carefully what horrors may lurk ‘neath the ” crowded green hills and endless trickle of brooks “: . . . . Continue Reading »

7 Aug 2009 0

Truth-telling, Responsibility, and Jim Wallis

by Keith Pavlischek

In a remarkably feckless article, “Truth-telling and Responsibility In Health Care ” Jim Wallis tries to convince us that all the concern over health care and abortion is much ado about nothing. President Obama said, “I think we also have a tradition of, in this town, historically, . . . . Continue Reading »

6 Aug 2009 0

Peaceable Animal Rights Activists Burn Drug Co. Executive’s Home, Steal Mother’s Ashes

by Wesley J. Smith

This is the kind of action that PETA and many other “mainstream” animal rights groups refuse to condemn. The vacation home of a drug company executive was torched and his mother’s ashes stolen. From the story:British animal rights activists have been accused of burning down a . . . . Continue Reading »

6 Aug 2009 0

A Real Farmer vs. Agri-intellectuals

by Peter Lawler

This “industrial farmer” is really ticked off by crunchy, porch-bound critics who don’t know what they’re talking about. The truth is that many “industrial farmers” are family farmers; they’re not all that alienated from the land or nature, and they give a . . . . Continue Reading »

6 Aug 2009 0

Congress and the Brown M&M Test

by Joe Carter

You’ve probably heard the decades-old tale about how the band Van Halen included a provision in their backstage concert rider that stipulated that brown M&M’s were to be banished from the band’s dressing room. I had always assumed it was another arbitrary and outlandish demand . . . . Continue Reading »

6 Aug 2009 0

eBaywatch: Rushing the Season

by Sally Thomas

I know, I know. It’s a little early to be thinking about UNIQUE Religious Catholic Advent Calendars.This one is noteworthy, however, in that it gives away, immediately, what it is you await with intense longing all through Advent. Forget the prophetic allusions. Forget the O Antiphons. Forget . . . . Continue Reading »

6 Aug 2009 0

Death and the Children

by Joseph Bottum

Via Howard Friedman , a report that the high court of South Korea has banned columbariums even in churches when those columbariums—columbaria?—are near schools. The problem is that any reminder of death is “likely to have a negative emotional impact on students.” Negative how? . . . . Continue Reading »

6 Aug 2009 0

The End of End of History

by Peter Lawler

Here’s another segment of my “What Was History (with a Capital H)?” For now, I skipped over the part that both connected and distanced “Historical” thinking from Christian thought. I’m still working on key details of that. Modern thinkers aren’t quite . . . . Continue Reading »

6 Aug 2009 0

Breakfast in the Kingdom

by Stephen M. Barr

Have you heard the “ Breakfast Song ”? It is a big hit on Youtube, with about a million hits. It is both very funny and very serious. About six months after this performance, Minister Cleo Clariet was indeed “called home” by his Lord. In the introduction to his song, Minister . . . . Continue Reading »

6 Aug 2009 0