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February 2015

February 20, 2015

“Domestic Tranquility”: I review Andrew Cherlin on working-class families

for the Weekly Standard: When the sociologist Timothy Nelson asked low-income men who didn’t live...

February 20, 2015

“America’s Imperial Mental Illness”: I’m in AmCon

reading Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche. I finally got around to...

February 02, 2015

Me on “Marta Oulie,” Sigrid Undset’s First Published Novel

at the University Bookman: Marta Oulie opens with the confession, “I have been unfaithful to...

January 2015

January 29, 2015

“To Overcome Distrust, Renew Friendship”: Amber and David Lapp

have basically the same conversation I just had with a woman at the pregnancy center:...

November 2014

November 23, 2014

“The Prize of the Defeated”: Matthew Walther on Don Colacho

click: Nicolás Gómez-Dávila’s name is not one to conjure with on these shores or, probably,...

October 2014

October 29, 2014

Do They Know It’s Halloween?: Cracked Feels My Pain

about the decline of trick-or-treating: #1. Traditional Trick-or-Treating Is Dying The first year I lived...

August 2014

August 27, 2014

“Modernity as an Overlearning of Christianity”: Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

good food for thought all the way through: ...Heresy therefore always poses a tricky double...

June 2014

June 17, 2014

“Geishas by Gaslight”: I review a show at the Freer

for AmCon: The Freer Gallery named their show of wood-block prints by fin de siecle...

June 12, 2014

Painting the Town Red: “The Exiles,” A Masterpiece of Lost L.A.

Kent MacKenzie's The Exiles played exactly once, at the 1961 Venice Film Festival, and then...

May 2014

May 31, 2014

From “Going to the Dogs”

"That happens to many women. We young men have cares of our own, and they...

February 2014

February 20, 2014

From Evelyn Waugh, “Men at Arms”

They performed an exercise of "company in the attack," became entirely intermixed, extricated themselves and...

November 2013

November 20, 2013

“What Classic, Orthodox Celibacy Isn’t”

at Spiritual Friendship: If we follow the tradition’s logic, celibacy cannot be a synonym for...

October 2013

October 25, 2013

“Material Madchen”: I read “The Artificial Silk Girl”

at AmCon: I picked up Irmgard Keun’s 1932 novel The Artificial Silk Girl at the...

October 19, 2013

“Disorientation”: I review a photography show at the Sackler Gallery

for AmCon: Now that the shutdown is over, I can tell you about a small...

September 2013

September 12, 2013

From Jennifer M. Silva, “Coming Up Short: Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty”

In an era of short-term flexibility, constant flux, and hollow institutions, the transition to adulthood...

August 2013

August 23, 2013

“To Achieve Existential Fulfillment, Brokers Must Spurn Webinars”

"...and instead come to grips with their insignificance, Smith said." Yes.

August 06, 2013

“The Church Failed Millennials, Just Not in the Way You Think It Did”

at Christ & Pop Culture, some interesting stuff--I take no position on either of the...

June 2013

June 30, 2013

This Mockingbird Article About Sex and Internet Porn

quotes literally all of the good bits of the Alain de Botton piece it's riffing...

June 20, 2013

A Lovely Example of Spiritual Friendship Between Two Protestant Women

here: To students of church history, Esther Edwards Burr (1732-1758) is known today as one of...

June 15, 2013

Meal Scheduling When Friends Are in Need

Because these days traditions may need a little high-tech help. Take Them a Meal seems...

May 2013

May 25, 2013

Hope Stumbles Eternal: “Frances Ha”

The director of The Squid and the Whale made a movie with the star of...

May 01, 2013

And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly…

In the continuing saga of my criticism of critical thinking.... An astute reader pointed out...

April 2013

April 29, 2013

“Believe” is a transitive verb, and other good points against me

Christian H at The Thinking Grounds makes an attempt to figure out why on earth...

April 11, 2013

“You’re Not the Horrible Man I Married Anymore!”: me on Nick Hornby’s How to Be Good

In the first installment of this series on great novels about marriage we looked at...

April 02, 2013

The Twelve Steps and/as/vs. Religion

There is no way I will regret writing this post! Anyway, Helen Rittelmeyer has a...

March 2013

March 28, 2013

#lifehacks (this one is recycled from Twitter)

Express a religious longing as mental illness, then as identity politics.

March 28, 2013

#lifehacks

Undermine an authority, slowly ease away from the traditions it backstopped, lament the breakdown of...

March 24, 2013

“Some Prefer Nettles”: Drifting Toward Divorce

Some Prefer Nettles is a slim 1928 novel by Junichiro Tanizaki about the opening of...

March 23, 2013

From “Some Prefer Nettles”

Natives of Awaji say that the puppet theater originated there. In the center of the...

December 2012

December 24, 2012

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

Merry Christmas! Here's me blathering.