The Canadian Broadcasting Company aired this past Sunday a profile of our editor in chief, which, I must say, is quite balanced, even appreciative. Who’d of thunk it? Click here for the CBC’s website, and you should be able to access a video of the mini-documentary. (You may have to . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . has been up and opining almost a week now¯as distinguished from our Daily Article , found on our homepage and the Daily Article archive page .So remember to click on the little green button on the left-hand side of the homepage for multiple daily blog posts from staff, friends, and usual . . . . Continue Reading »
Last Wednesday, at Princeton University, vicious emails were sent to four students and a professor, threatening their lives because of their conservative political and religious views. The students¯all members of the Anscombe Society , the intellectual family-values organization on . . . . Continue Reading »
Reports are coming in that Francisco Nava has confessed to Princeton Township Police. Apparently he was behind the threats and the assault . More to . . . . Continue Reading »
Robert Kaplan has a fine essay over on the American Interest on the growing gap between the military and the civilian society. The military is increasingly a “warrior class” set apart. Kaplan is by no means the first to worry about this, but the intelligence of his worrying is refreshing. . . . . Continue Reading »
"Translations are like lovers: There are those that are beautiful but untrue¯and those that are true but unbeautiful."An old saw, perhaps, but I first heard it from the poet Dick Davis, himself a talented translator from medieval Persian . Nonetheless, we live in a glorious age for . . . . Continue Reading »
The global warming/climate change noise machine has reached a crescendo this week with Al Gore’s trip to Oslo to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize , our colleges sponsoring ” Focus the Nation ” weeks to promote the self-evident moral truth of combating warming, and above all the . . . . Continue Reading »
Numerous illustrations—absorbing, beautiful ones—of both the Vulgate Bible and the Divine Comedy by the Surrealist painter Salvador Dalí are now on view (and for sale) at Manhattan’s William Bennett Gallery . “The Spiritual Art of Salvador Dalí” runs through . . . . Continue Reading »
"The defense of life," declares Princeton University’s Robert P. George, "calls America back to the founding principles of our regime and to reflection on the justifying point and purposes of law and government."That was in last month’s Erasmus Lecture, the annual . . . . Continue Reading »
The book version of The Golden Compass begins with a bang. The movie version with a lecture.The film opens with the camera panning across a sea of computer-generated galaxies, and a narrative voice tells us of the underpinnings of Philip Pullman’s world. We learn that many universes lie . . . . Continue Reading »
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