After many conversations with friends and reporters and interested parties, I’m willing to make three predictions about Benedict XVI’s encyclical Caritas in Veritate , due out shortly: 1) The media will basically ignore it, as President Obama’s visit with the pope occupies all the . . . . Continue Reading »
What time is it?But don’t take my word for it. Listen to what the vendor has to say: GREAT CLOCK TO HAVE AROUND THE HOUSERELIGIOUS ITEMS ARE GREATEVERYONE WILL LOVE THIS CLOCKSMAKES A GREAT GIFT FOR ANYONEWhich, I suppose, can be said of the Crucifixion itself, though I’m not sure . . . . Continue Reading »
Despite the title, the purpose of this post is not to engage in the ongoing discussion regarding “roots” music and “localism”, etc. Instead, I hope to offer some alternatives to those who seek something different than the usual musical fare offered on the 4th of July. Here . . . . Continue Reading »
It is reported that Douglas Kmiec has been nominated to be ambassador to Malta . For Malta? It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. But for Malta? . . . . Continue Reading »
So this started as a comment on Peter’s great post below but took on a life of its own. Peter humorously accuses Deneen and his fellow travelers of a kind of insincerity since they seem to take great enjoyment in the many advantages afforded us by the modernity they often disdain. I . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter’s delightful post, “Localism,” takes his work to a new level of literary achievement. This is the stuff of anthologies and “Greatest Works” collections. It is singularly brilliant, it reveals him not as your stereotypical “pointy-headed” philosophy . . . . Continue Reading »
In his post on Local Color , Jody includes the epiphanic observation that American literature has entailed a “substitution of geography for heroes in our moral vocabulary.” In other words, we don’t have many heroic types in American literature. What we have instead is heroic . . . . Continue Reading »
I recently came across the odd fact that one of the leading researchers on the brain in the twentieth century was—wait for it: Lord Brain. For real. His full name and title were Walter Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain. What is even better, he was the longtime editor of the research journal Brain . . . . Continue Reading »
James is fond of destinguishing between ‘political libertarians’ and ‘cultural libertarians’, and the more that I read the ongoing kerfuffle over localism that has spread from PoMoCon and FPR to First Thoughts and Daniel McCarthy , the more I think a similar distinction . . . . Continue Reading »
Rusty, this has been a fun discussion of localism, particularly as I’m writing from a little town in South Dakota, back home for the summer in the one locale I really know. A thing I discovered, thinking our way through this, is the extent to which the descriptive is often taken as the . . . . Continue Reading »
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