I must've missed the announcement: New political philosophy on web: Front Porch Republic. It looks like it's dedicated to a lot of the ideas I promote here. Though I'm more of a quasi-anarchist (I like to call myself an anarchist but know I'm not) than a distributist, they eat much of the same intellectual food. Check it out.
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"So, what's Notre Dame's problem? In short, Notre Dame's problem is precisely what was once Harvard's problem, Yale's problem, and Princeton's problem. It has symbolically begun a process of secularization that, if not stopped and reversed, will render it no longer Catholic in any meaningful sense and even eventually hostile to Christian faith." Heck, that started over 30 years ago. I thought the process had been halted, maybe even reversed, with the advent of more orthodox Catholics on campus, but I guess I'm naive.
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Meanwhile, Obama provides further evidence why he shouldn't receive an honorary doctorate from ND: President Obama's nominee to head the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel once compared "forced pregnancy" with slavery. Now Republicans are considering a filibuster to block her confirmation.
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Review/essay about a new book about Gerard Manley Hopkins. I've bookmarked it for later reading.
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From the Notebooks (2004): Helpless he came to us, helpless he left us. Accountants might call it LILO: Lowly in, lowly out. He came to us as a baby and we took him in. He left us tortured and crucified and we helped lash him. Mary's "yes" is our glory; Pilate's nod is our shame. Let us celebrate now and cry later. And in both events, let us be thankful for a God that cares enough to send His Son to die for both of our faces.
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