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July 2014

July 15, 2014

Christopher Mitchell, R.I.P.

Chris Mitchell, Wheaton and then Biola professor, C. S. Lewis scholar, and a friend to...

July 15, 2014

A Defense of the Pit Bull

The essay's a little over-wrought, especially at the end, but offers a needed defense of the...

July 15, 2014

Rand on Abortion (and on the side of evil as usual)

"An embryo has no rights," declared Ayn Rand, as quoted by William Luse, responding to To...

July 14, 2014

The Catholic and Conservative Ramesh Ponnuru

"I aspire to put 'Catholic' before 'conservative' in my life," explains Ramesh Ponnuru, interviewed in America....

July 14, 2014

Carey & the English Tar Pit

It must be Anglicans for Helping People Kill Themselves week around the world. South African...

July 14, 2014

The Suicide Tar Pit

"Legalizing doctor-prescribed death is mostly a cause of the well off, for whom access to quality...

July 11, 2014

Bad Buffer Zones

Rachel Maddow is right about buffer zones, whose imposition around abortionists the Supreme Court recently...

July 11, 2014

If This Was the 1950s

Australian judge says incest may no longer be a taboo, reports the Daily Telegraph, and the...

July 10, 2014

Three Children, Five Parents, & Changing Marriage

Her brother, says Masha Gessen, former head of the Moscow office of US Radio Liberty,...

July 10, 2014

Readings (10 July 2014)

The papers from the 2014 Orientale Lumen conference, by Kallistos Ware, Father Robert Taft, S.J.,...

July 10, 2014

Watch Out for Nice People

Apparent good news for writers and others on the cranky end of the personality scale:...

July 09, 2014

Lewis & Orwell on Language

In Broken Families, Broken Words, I quoted C. S. Lewis's insight into what happens when...

July 09, 2014

Broken Families, Broken Words

“When . . . you have killed a word you have also, as far as in you lay,...

July 09, 2014

Build a Better Bible

Leah Lebresco mentions an attempt to find a more readable Bible (physically readable, that is)....

July 08, 2014

Put Not Your Trust in Princes

A friend, writing in an e-mail string lamenting the liberalization of the Anglo-Catholic movement of...

July 07, 2014

The Rabbi’s Indirect Care

R. Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the last Lubavitcher Rebbe and leader of the Chabad movement, who died...

July 07, 2014

Why So Many Millenials Are Living at Home

Do not, says Derek Thompson in The Atlantic:, freak out: a huge percentage of young...

July 07, 2014

Readings (7 July 2014)

The Continuing Mysteries of the Aleppo Codex, from The Tablet. The codex, "the perfect copy...

July 06, 2014

Normal Paedophilia

The Telegraph's sub-editor chose the provocative headline 'Paedophilia is natural and normal for males' with only...

July 03, 2014

Readings (3 July 2014)

Filmmaker Scott Derrickson on Horror, Faith, Chesterton and His New Movie, by Steven Greydanus, from...

July 02, 2014

It’s a Funny Old World 5

Tired of the unfashionable traditional outfits, which can be "intimidating," they've adopted "the mismatched, sweetly-scruffy...

July 02, 2014

Father Rumble Explains

In yesterday's Readings, I gave the link to the Australian writer R. J. Stove's conversion...

July 01, 2014

Politicians 1

One doesn't want to encourage easy cynicism about politicians, but they make it hard. From...

July 01, 2014

Readings (1 July 2014)

Let Them Eat Cash, from the New York Times. Though many people think that simply...

July 01, 2014

The Precise Philosopher

One appreciates the precision. Some years after the 1968 student riots at Columbia University, the philosopher...

July 01, 2014

It’s a Funny Old World 4

This one is more funny peculiar than funny amusing. "Well you better decide, miss. Hand...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

Tired Yuppy Parents

In this morning's readings, I mentioned an article on the need for children to play...

June 30, 2014

Readings (30 June 2014)

Why Free Play Is the Best Summer School, by Jessica Leahy, from The Atlantic. A "Well,...

June 30, 2014

It’s a Funny Old World 3

“This may be a consequence of me being American," explained Bristol University's Dr. David Glowacki,...

June 29, 2014

Sexual Stimulants

Travelling a few days ago, I stopped at a truck stop at which I'd stopped...

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