"withdrawing what we value from the...
The problem for conservatism is to reconcile the many and often conflicting demands that these...
Apr 1st
Purim in Jerusalem
So it was on a beautiful warm Sunday that we got to see happy Orthodox families stroll around the...
Mar 31st
Brooks Haxton, "Prospectus: In Lieu of...
To the Syracuse mayor, the County Executive, and Members of Common Council. I propose a shrimp...
Mar 31st
what we want from history
Whatever academic scholarship may insist, surely a sense of proportion is the last thing we want...
Mar 30th
Karl Barth on children
What Christians do becomes a self-contradiction when it takes the form of a trained and mastered...
Mar 29th
(Thanks, Wes)
Mar 28th
Mar 28th
Carlos Estevez, via Monoscope
Mar 28th
Les Murray, "The Sleepout"
Childhood sleeps in a verandah room in an iron bed close to the wall where the winter over the...
Mar 28th
Watch
Jill Bolte Taylor on having a stroke (If this is not loading properly, you can find the talk here)
Mar 28th
a lengthy list of obsolete skills
Mar 27th
Jacob Carter again
Mar 27th
McArdle's insufficient repentance
I am obviously brokenhearted that I supported a war which has killed something like 125,000 Iraqis...
Mar 26th
[Indexed]
Mar 26th
John C. Wright: Now that I am a...
First question: Where does my new name go? I am John Justin-Martyr Charles Wright? Or does it go...
Mar 25th
Jacob Carter
Mar 25th
John Burns: Iraq, five years later
Opinion polls, including those commissioned by the American command, have long suggested that a...
Mar 25th
not so easy
Live as those that believe that you are to be members of the holy catholic church, and therein to...
Mar 25th
Rowan Williams's Easter sermon
Artists, scientists and psychoanalysts have in different ways warned against the dangerous illusion...
Mar 24th
Gene Weingarten's Valentine's Day
I take out my cellphone and begin to tap in a message. My fingers aren’t working well, and it...
Mar 24th
glorious hope
That triumphal barnburner of an Easter hymn, “Jesus Christ Has Risen Today –...
Mar 24th
when faith returned
On the afternoon in 1998 when faith returned, I experienced a sense of the limitless power and...
Mar 23rd
George Herbert, "Easter"
I got me flowers to straw thy way; I got me boughs off many a tree: But thou wast up by break of...
Mar 23rd
a Good Friday prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, who for the redemption of mankind didst ascend the cross, that thou mightest...
Mar 21st
Mar 20th
Mar 20th
Brian Dettmer, book autopsies
Mar 20th
an announcement from your host
I’m on involuntary hiatus thanks to the flu. I hope to return when I can reassemble my life.
Mar 13th
A “pageant of pilcrows” from Hoefler and...
Mar 12th
“The group calling themselves Evangelical ought no longer to...”
— John Ruskin, Modern Painters...
— John Ruskin, Modern Painters...
Mar 12th
more cool business cards via CreativeBits; this one,...
Mar 12th
a few thoughts on Edmundson's essay
Mar 11th
enemies of closure
At the beginning of school last fall, I ran into a student on the University of Virginia Lawn, not...
Mar 11th
a different take on Gygax and D&D
Here’s the narrative arithmetic that Gygax came up with: You come across a family of sleeping...
Mar 11th
great illustration by Sam Potts from an NYT article on Gary...
Mar 10th
The PowerPoint Anthology of Literature, by Daniel Radosh
Mar 10th
Minuscule, by Thomas Huot-Marchand: Minuscule 2 is meant for...
Mar 10th
from book to essay
Books are the standard now, and for me to ask you to think that the future will feature the...
Mar 10th
busted
IN a scandal that’s sending shock waves through both the publishing industry and academia, the...
Mar 9th
the loss of the phone
But the fact that a generation has grown up unaware of pulse dialing and seven-digit numbers seems...
Mar 9th
cleaning up
Hygiene has always been a convenient stick with which to beat other peoples, who never seem to get...
Mar 8th
Untitled, Barbara Crane
Mar 8th
cigar box by Paul Rand
Mar 8th
So if you don’t like cute dog pictures go to some...
Mar 7th
border crossings
When we reached the Kyrgyz border station just after dawn, the bus driver collected 500 Kyrgyz...
Mar 7th
Richard Wilbur, "Advice to a Prophet"
When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city, Mad-eyed from stating the obvious,...
Mar 7th
“Steve understands desire.”
— Alan Kay on Steve Jobs
— Alan Kay on Steve Jobs
Mar 7th
here comes the sun
LONGYEARBYEN, Norway — This week, this remote Arctic settlement — which bills itself as the...
Mar 6th
helpful hints from John Crace
Imagine that your parents didn’t beat you up, that you were only slightly bullied at school,...
Mar 6th
Alan Dershowitz on the love of death
“We are going to win, because they love life and we love death,” said Hassan Nasrallah,...
Mar 5th
a few thoughts on Nicholson Baker and...
Mar 3rd
Mar 3rd
Barry Moser
Mar 3rd
"his own heart is uncertain"
God has put this Word into the mouth of others in order that it may be communicated to us. When one...
Mar 2nd
children lying
Dr. Bella DePaulo of the University of California, Santa Barbara, has devoted much of her career to...
Mar 2nd
the Brooklyn life
As you may have heard, all the writers are in Brooklyn these days. It’s the place to be. You’re...
Mar 1st
the Cossack and the Jewish boy
One day, when he was seven or eight years old and foraging for something to eat, a Cossack rode down...
Mar 1st
Joshua Klein’s vending machine for crows
Mar 1st