In Search Of: 1. Some news that isn’t about Michael Jackson. I’m grateful, though, to The Anchoress for explaining the difference between an icon and an idol; I was going to write about the difference between an icon and a curiosity, with reference to Michael Jackson, but now I kind of . . . . Continue Reading »
Check out FT junior fellow Ryan Sayre Patrico’s review of Remi Brague’s Legend of the Middle Age s—this weekend on National Review Online . . . . . Continue Reading »
A bumpersticker in a parking lot at one of my work places reads: “Fear No Art.”I did not expect to be drawn into a discussion of art. As I acknowledged in my first posting, other than an amateur enjoyment of classical music and opera, my artistic knowledge is woefully undeveloped. . . . . Continue Reading »
Pomocon ponderings continued: 1. On one end you have a profound way of life , rooted and grounded in a robust and declarative embodiment of the whole . On the other end you have a superficial lifestyle , one option among many chosen for no more and no less than idiosyncratic, contingent, partial . . . . Continue Reading »
Stephen Barr, in the entry below , expresses a frustration that some of us have faced, and continue to face, with ID advocates, many of whom are our friends. Take, for example, John West’s interpretation of Romans 1:20. Paul writes: “For since the creation of the world God’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Here are some comments that you can fully understand only by going to the Front Porch Republic site under “Part Deux.” They’re meant in complete love and respect: This is way too much to read. So only five comments: 1. Where can I get some of that french fried latte? 2. Even . . . . Continue Reading »
To quote the Gipper, “There he goes again.” Every time John G. West attempts to argue against my views, he misrepresents them. I have already pointed out several examples of this. But now West furnishes several more. Here is what West writes about me : Near the end of his recent blog . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s my response to Deneen’s just concern that his fans my be scared off by my accusing him of being too Marxist: Here’s Marx: Who a human being is is determined by HISTORY (you paleos should love him—he really, really takes history seriously)—that is, by the . . . . Continue Reading »
At No Left Turns, friend to pomocons Joe Knippenberg has set off a (mostly) nice conversation on sex vote stuff. He adds: I’d ask another question as well: doesn’t the pursuit of self-gratification in all its forms undermine the responsibility necessary for vindicating one’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Prof. Deneen has a nice summary at Front Porch of the state of play in our Great American Renegade Right Throwdown. Any critique of that summary is far above my pay grade! So, Pomocon being a dogma-free zone, I’m inspired simply to throw out my own take on the issues and what’s at . . . . Continue Reading »
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