Really it’s a travel diary, and I’d forgotten all about it. In the summer of 1993, expecting our first child, my husband and I spent three weeks in France and Germany. Our aim I suppose was to prove to ourselves that having children wasn’t going to tie us down. We’d been . . . . Continue Reading »
Writing in Newsweek July 9 Kathleen Kennedy Townsend argues that “Barack Obama represents American Catholic better than the pope does.” Of course, the pope is only the Bishop of Rome, whereas Obama is . . . . Continue Reading »
David Brooks’ recent column, called “In Search of Dignity,” is of pomocon interest. Just as Brooks tends to view genius as the practical result of expeditiously logging big hours of disciplined rehearsal, he sees the survival of dignity as dependent upon the persistence of a . . . . Continue Reading »
Entitled ” Capitalism with a Conscience ,” it appeared on July 10 in the Times of London online. . . . . Continue Reading »
I wrote previously here at SHS of my disgust with the book Larry’s Kidney—which of course wasn’t Larry’s at all, but that of a Chinese political, criminal, or Falun Gong prisoner—who was killed for the lucre that the book’s author, Daniel Asa Rose. paid to obtain . . . . Continue Reading »
John Henry Newman on Catholic universities: Here, then, I conceive, is the object of the Holy See and the Catholic Church in setting up Universities; it is to reunite things which were in the beginning joined together by God, and have been put asunder by man. Some persons will say that I am . . . . Continue Reading »
Reading Alexander Waugh on Christopher Buckley , I thought about the strangely immoral project of weighing our parents—a thought I’ve had before : Every memoir of childhood is necessarily overshadowed by parents, and I could find, were I to turn my mind that way, stories of my . . . . Continue Reading »
I would note a couple of complications for the Front Porch discussion of Strauss in relation to an Alternative Tradition in America. Discussion of these complications might help to clarify what, if anything stable and substantial, is really at stake between a Front Porch and a Pomocon position . . . . Continue Reading »
Since I am self promotion mode today, I thought I would post this less than two minute promo for the CBC-produced documentary, Lines That Divide. It offers, I think, a good and quick overview of the ESCR . . . . Continue Reading »
As promised, my extended piece on the issue of “animal standing” to sue and its support by Cass Sunstein, rumored to be on the fast track to the U.S. Supreme Court and currently appointed to be “regulations czar” for the Obama Administration—is out in the Weekly . . . . Continue Reading »
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