Back from vacation, rested, and rarin’ to go: Time for SHS to catch up!Let’s start with an important but little c0vered story: Senator Saxby Chambliss (R=GA) has put a “hold” on the nomination of Harvard Law Professor Cass Sunstein to be what is sometimes called the . . . . Continue Reading »
Accusations of racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, and other related words do not have quite the emotive power in East Asian societies as they do for contemporary Westerns, living under the shadow of the Holocaust, years of massive immigration, and sensitivity training. The use of such words . . . . Continue Reading »
A brief remark as I hang out with my newly home-birthed son. (The goods of home birth definitely transcend all isms.) A recent portion of our pomocon/FPR critical saga has involved a fascinating exchange of allegations of stoicism and praise for certain kinds of stoicism. And it is true that . . . . Continue Reading »
You’ve seen those HSBC ads —you know the ones about perspectives? Like this one: I ran into this sign yesterday on someone’s lawn—posted in the grass like one of those lawn campaign signs—and I couldn’t help but be puzzled. So I’ve developed my own . . . . Continue Reading »
As some of our readers have noticed, Locke is a big subject around here. We don’t share a single interpretation of his philosophy (you should listen to Ivan), or of his influence on the American regime. But we agree that the positions expressed above all in the 2nd Treatise of Government . . . . Continue Reading »
The analogy of being and the living GodIn my criticisms of the Christian appropriation of the visual arts, at least one commenter invoked “the analogy of being.” The reference sent me scurrying back to Thomas Aquinas. Although no centralized text states Aquinas’ doctrine directly . . . . Continue Reading »
Laughable sign number two (see number one ) from my summer travels. . . . . Continue Reading »
Diabolical! I hadn’t thought of this.Now that we have a viable hypothesis as to the nature of the problem, the question becomes: who invented this monster in the first place? Round up the usual suspects, say . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, it’s official. The Vatican has announced that Benedict XVI’s new encyclical, titled “Caritas in Veritate,” will be released Tuesday, July 7 : Those participating in Tuesday’s conference will be: Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino and Bishop Giampaolo Crepaldi, . . . . Continue Reading »
For all that America prides itself on its individualism, the most distinctive American works of art have always seemed to me to be group projects: musicals such as Oklahoma! , and movies such as The Magnificent Ambersons , and—it seems worth mentioning, now that we’re reaching the end of . . . . Continue Reading »
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