Tuesday Miscellany
Hell freezes over: The devil’s in the details, but it looks like Obama’s willing to let the automakers go bankrupt. I never thought he’d let that happen to his …
Month: March 2009
Feature Essay
Good revolutionaries get slaughtered. That might be one way of characterizing the lesson of Barabbas. On that scary day 2,000 years ago, when Hell unleashed its fury on the …
Something for Sunday Morning
“Our friends, relatives, colleagues and acquaintances have to find us loyal, sincere, cheerful, optimistic, good at our job, resilient, pleasant, courageous . . . At the same time, in …
Brews You Can Use
An old drinking friend comes to town tonight: Uncle Joe (who’s movin’ kinda slow–joke). He re-located from Detroit to Florida about six years ago. Born in 1946, he’s the …
Douthat
I hesitatingly renewed my subscription to New York Magazine last month. I really like the magazine, but it leans left and at times is too risque to have around …
Wednesday Miscellany
Whew, things have exploded around the office. After the October 2008 Stock Crash, things really slowed down at the office. I was always busy (thankfully), but it was a …
From the Catholic Anarchy Archives
Anarchy or Subsidiarity? The anarchist welcomes the Church teaching of subsidiarity, which says the smallest units of society ought to handle whatever they can, with the larger units getting …
Feature Essay
Orthodoxy and the Modern Creed I’ve been in circles when young, growing families are discussed. The conversation goes something like this: Person One: “E is having another child.” Person …
Something for Laetare Sunday Morning
Joy in the Cross Today, “the Church wishes to remind us that joy is perfectly compatible with mortification and pain. It is sadness and not penance which is opposed …
Brews You Can Use
Is this Brews You Can Use or Family Hour? It’s BYCU, but these are the reasons I drink. Actually, they’re the reasons this isn’t a 24/7 drinking blog. I …