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March 2019

March 07, 2019

The Shortest, Gladdest Daze of Life: Brief movie reviews

Primal Fear: A 1996 suspense flick that feels more late-'80s. Richard Gere plays a transcendantly...

June 2017

June 01, 2017

If We Shadows Have Offended: I read “If We Were Villains”

So you don't have to! No, this trashy novel by M.L. Rio, set at an...

April 2016

April 30, 2016

“Some Possibilities for Narratives of Friendship”: I’m at Spiritual Friendship

readin' books: I loved Wes’s post on writing about friendship, and figured I’d throw some...

December 2015

December 03, 2015

How Can I Change the Conversation at My College Around Gay People in the Church?

The second post about questions I was asked at recent speaking events. I've written about...

October 2015

October 10, 2015

Bright College Chaplains, With Pleasures Rife (aka My Advice to Catholic Colleges re: LGBT Students)

The shortest, gladdest chaplains of life! I had the chance recently to talk to some...

September 2015

September 21, 2015

“Et in Academia, Ego”: I review “Bradstreet Gate”

for the University Bookman: Death and defeat haunt the college novel. College novels—whether they focus...

September 18, 2015

I Watch “Mistress America,” The New Noah Baumbach/Greta Gerwig Flick About Women’s Friendship

for AmCon: One of the weirder trends in today’s art is the rise of a...

February 2015

February 21, 2015

“Governance Feminism” and Sexual Assault on Campuses

this bit leapt out at me but whole thing is worth reading--if I had to...

December 2014

December 09, 2014

“How to Be Intoxicated”

This article is annoyingly coy (it's all "there's danger in intoxication! there are no guarantees!"...

September 2014

September 17, 2014

The Proper Basis for a Friendship is a Mutual Misunderstanding: Iris Murdoch’s “The Book and the Brotherhood”

The setup for The Book and the Brotherhood seems like one of those survivor's-guilt campus...

June 2014

June 20, 2014

Musical Rosary #4–Presentation

When the days were completed for their purification according to the law of Moses, they...

April 2014

April 25, 2014

The Guilty Party: A Double Novel of Czech Complicity and Canadian Frivolity

Joseph Skvorecky's Two Murders in My Double Life basically does what it says on the...

February 2014

February 20, 2014

“How Universities Fail Their Students in Crisis”: Leah Libresco

at AmCon: A student is raped by a classmate, goes to the campus center for...

January 2014

January 15, 2014

“Course Evaluations for the Sermon on the Mount”: Millinerd

lol: Way too demanding for Gen Ed requirement. Prof expected us all to exceed best...

August 2013

August 22, 2013

“In the Hour of Chaos”: I review Charles Johnson’s short stories

at AmCon: Somebody–I hope a commenter will remind me who it was–has suggested that the...

July 2013

July 09, 2013

From Christopher R. Beha, “What Happened to Sophie Wilder”

Sometimes too we spoke about our classes, but only to disparage them. "They wanted to...

May 2013

May 21, 2013

So Many Steps to Death: Revisiting “Brideshead Revisited”

Hey, so I read Brideshead Revisited again. I was in college the first time. Probably...

January 2013

January 23, 2013

They don’t have bathroom walls at Carleton?

I'm sorry, every part of this story is self-parodic. Via TKB.

January 19, 2013

“Sex in the Meritocracy”: Helen Rittelmeyer

w/a really good piece: I rather think Yale is plagued by an excess of moral...

January 18, 2013

“Did You Go to Passion 2013? Here’s What Fyodor Dostoyevsky Would Say to You”

(if he were a blogger, I guess? but no, some good stuff here) I will...

December 2012

December 24, 2012

“A Quick Gulp of Yale’s Enormous New Art Gallery”

Merry Christmas! Here's me blathering.

December 22, 2012

Thy songs were made for the pure and free

"The Minstrel Boy" always gets me. Here a seven-year-old child sings it--scroll to the second...

December 18, 2012

I’m quoted in this Natl Catholic Register story on NDAlliance

A lot will depend on the personnel, as always, but ND has a chance to...

September 2012

September 28, 2012

“Playing cards collection” at the Beinecke: WWII Britain, Russian prison, planets, more!

Via TKB.

September 04, 2012

“Maybe Whit Stillman Knows What It’s Like to Be a Woman”

Probably the first of many posts I'll be linking from Helen Rittelmeyer's new blog.

August 2012

August 24, 2012

“The Great History Hoax of 1959”

In which the creators of a fake Protestant sect are themselves outhoaxed! Via Libresco.

August 24, 2012

“An Open Letter to LGBT or Same-Sex Attracted Freshmen at Christian Colleges and Universities”

is here. Via Wesley Hill.

August 16, 2012

As we prepare for back-to-school season

I'm reminded of this old piece I wrote, "The Survivor's-Guilt Guide to College."

July 2012

July 18, 2012

Step one: reject politics in favor of culture. Step two: ????

Step three: Beauty saves the world! I find this perennial article frustrating because it accurately...