A Uniter, Not a Divider
The (now-former) CNN personality Rick Sanchez will “be remembered as a uniter, bringing left and right together in shared amazement at his lunkheadedness.” Forget the politics for a minute. The line...
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Just in case any of you teachers out there need a definition of the rule of law, the New York Times today explained , in a long thumb-sucking piece on the Tea Party, that it is “[F.A.] Hayeks term...
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How We Live Today
Imagine an organization”a bowling league, say, formed by a group of people who get together simply because they like to bowl. And imagine that, over time, the demands and rewards of being the...
View ArticleReligious Mysteries
Browsing an Agatha Christie anthology the other night, I reread for the first time in years the Poirot story “The Apples of the Hesperides,” which ends: In the little parlour of the Convent, Hercule...
View ArticleDefining Politics
Interesting Senate race in Connecticut, writes David Bernstein : One candidates adult life has been spent in a profession in which testosterone-infused alpha male types engage in well-choreographed...
View ArticleWhy Mahler?
Every time I think I might be wrong about the essential meaningless of most music criticism, I read stuff like thisa catalog by Philip Kennicott of some of the idiocies he found in Norman Lebrecht’s...
View ArticleA Bit of Rome
Just clicked through to read about something mentioned earlier : A 55-square-foot apartment is on sale in Rome for just over $69,000. 55 square feet. That’s 5’ by 11’. I mean, sure, it’s on the Piazza...
View ArticleTruth in Direct Mail
So the subscription request from Ms. Magazine reads: “Content and design that will not be uncompromised by the demands of advertising.” A weak attempt at cutesy honesty, or just bad copyediting?
View ArticleMandatory Chapel
Add up the music conservatories and the seminaries, the enormous land-grant universities and the tiny Bible colleges, the Harvards and the would-be Harvards, the art institutes and the yeshivas, and...
View ArticleFaith in America’s Colleges
Wheaton College in Illinois is the single best place to go to college in America. Or Thomas Aquinas College in California. Or the utterly secular Princeton University in New Jersey. In terms of final...
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