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The Great Terri Schiavo Divide
At the end of this month, Terri Schiavo will be ten years dead. But she is far…
First Links — 3.5.15
This is Russia Brian Doyle, The American Scholar 2,500 Years of Gyms Mark Mason, The Spectator Song…
Laughing at the Death of our Republic
I’m glad that we can still laugh at the death of the American Republic. The WSJ reports that…
“A Life in the Public Square” on C-SPAN This Weekend
Two weeks ago First Things hosted a lively conversation between Randy Boyagoda and Sam Tanenhaus over the…
Sentenced to Drink
In an oracle against Edom, Jeremiah warns that the guilty will be sentenced to drink: “Behold, those…
Form and Type
It sure seems that the story of Joseph is a typological foreshadowing of the life of Jesus.…
Othering and Order
Jock Young (Vertigo of Late Modernity) discerns two sorts of “othering” in contemporary life: “the first is…
Offerer and Offering
This past Sunday evening, I learned the awful news that Matthew Baker, my friend of ten years,…
First Links — 3.4.15
Why Our Children Don’t Think There Are Moral Facts Justin McBrayer, The New York Times Music to…
Heifers, Serpents, Trees, Locusts
Jeremiah 46 is an oracle against Egypt, which, like Judah, is threatened by the advancing forces of…
Making Selves Without Straw
The late Jock Young observes in his Vertigo of Late Modernity that our period is characterized by “a…
Fragmentation and Aestheticism
In several dense paragraphs in The Fragmented World of the Social, Axel Honneth describes the Gyorgy Lukacs’s analysis…
A World Beyond Morality
In his little book, Alone Again, Zygmunt Bauman summarizes his characteristic themes: We live in a liquid world,…
No Fighting God
Some months after my son-in-law, Rob Susil, died, a longtime friend asked me, in a gentle but…
Georgetown and the Death of Moral Discourse
Last week at Forbes.com, Maureen Sullivan published an article on the latest developments regarding free speech at…
