Politico’s Foucauldian trip
Roger Simon is the best political commentator at the best popular political newspaper. In a recent editorial for Politico, Simon had…
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An article published last week in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune (available online here) caused a hubbub that quite probably tops the…
Knowing, Believing, Saying
Religion Dispatches reports on a Philosopher of Religion who has given up on philosophy of religion. “I just cannot take…
Book Review: Possession
Have you ever found yourself quoting Homer or Aristotle or Milton in ordinary conversation? Have you ever sat and stared…
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like…Uh-Oh.
Once upon a time, not so very long ago, in a land not so very far away, a young woman…
Noah’s Ark, Plus a Note on Church & Culture
Okay, so they’re building a life-size Noah’s ark in Kentucky. Answers in Genesis is funding it after the huge success…
Reformers Reforming Reforms
A similarly-alliterated follow-up to my post on overseas voting: I was struck as I wrote it by the fact that…
Sin! Responsibility! Children!
Children have a sense of sin, acute in proportion to their sensitiveness. We are in danger of trusting too much…
“We Are All Paranoid Schizophrenics”
Everyone knows the basics: a week ago, an amorphous and mysterious organization called Wikileaks kicked off what it promises will…
For those of us who walk toward the blinding light
When Christopher Hitchens addressed the idea of Washington, DC, as being literary place, he displayed his usual impressive command of…
The Confused Independent Coffee Shop
Politically speaking, what do you think of when I say “independent coffee shop”? Maybe one could imagine a Rod Dreher…
Saving Soldiers’ Suffrage
To most people, absentee ballot fraud is not an interesting subject. While many people say they do not have confidence…
Harrington vs. Hobbes: There will be blood
… [T]he principles of government are twofold: internal, or the goods of the mind; and external, or the goods of…
Redeeming the Time
George Weigel, reflecting on the legacy of outgoing USCCB president Francis Cardinal George, puts forth a thought-provoking suggestion for one…
Running for it
The top American-born runner at the New York City marathon this year was Dathan Ritzenhein. Ritzenhein’s time of 2:12:33 was respectable,…
Obvious facts do not contain obvious policies
Last week I attended a conference on environmental regulation that reminded me how difficult it is to balance the demands…
Film Review: The Devil and Daniel Johnston
It’s always a good time attacking the Enlightenment. You can find firebrands on the right (Peter Leithart) and on the…
Persona
Evangelical Outpost contains a recent article about the play Cyrano de Bergerac, the story of an ugly soldier with beautiful…
Universities haven’t changed since the 12th century
Peter Abelard writes in “The Story of My Calamities,” c. 1130 AD: The thing which at that time chiefly led…
Kierkegaard says no to Hegel
J.M. Bernstein has an interesting article on NYTimes Online Opinionator. Interesting, because G.W.F. Hegel is rarely discussed in a newspaper. Or…