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December 2014

December 02, 2014

The Man Who Affected to be a Savage

A useful story, from James Boswell's Life of Johnson (available in various forms here): Boswell: I...

August 2014

August 21, 2014

People Who Find God in Sunsets

When they find out she's a minister, Lillian Daniel complains, people on airplanes keep telling...

August 13, 2014

What the Hell, Land’s End?

The message I just sent to Land's End, which is apparently sending out as a...

August 01, 2014

The Last Century’s Fifty Worst Books

Starting with Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa, the Intercollegiate Review presents the Fifty Worst...

July 2014

July 25, 2014

False Beauties

"I'm not all that surprised when I hear of 18-year-olds who expected to hold a...

July 17, 2014

Love Is Not Love

By which the writer, William Luse, means "love" is not love. Writing in Christendom Review,...

July 06, 2014

Normal Paedophilia

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

June 2014

June 29, 2014

Sexual Stimulants

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

June 27, 2014

Modern Eugenics

The eugenic impulse lives, among people who refuse to recognize that recognizing the dignity of...