Month: June 2011
Odd Names This blog post at NRO about odd Puritan names (“Experience Bliss,” “Thankful Clapp,” “Moses Sleeper”) reminded me of this passage from A Renegade History of the United …
Received in an Email These insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words: A member of Parliament to Disraeli: “Sir, you will …
The Libertarian Political Philosophy in a Nutshell “Society, it should be kept in mind, is a group of people who cooperate with one another in order that they may …
Quick Reference: “The idea that A could at the same time be non-A or that to prefer A to B could at the same time be to prefer B …
Pornography and Idiocy (from 2004) Writing about pornography is kinda like making pornography: what are you going to say (do) that hasn’t been said (done) before? The director of …
“All fear arises from the love of something.” St. Thomas Aquinas
Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas? The Beer Taster recently featured Three Philosophers. That is one righteous beer. I agree with this description: “The aroma is very malty and full of …
Studies like this don’t really impress me: Women Who Lost Virginity Early More Likely To Divorce. It’s nice to see empirical support for the idea that poor upbringing results …
Catholic Blog Surfing Bert Ghezzi is a genuinely good guy. I’ve corresponded with him on a few occasions, and he even expressed willingness to “go to bat” for me …
Catholic Arts and Letters Weekly On the centennial of his birth, the influence of Catholicism on Marshall McLuhan’s Catholicism gets a fair and good hearing. Perhaps the best essay …
The Angel and the Idiots What do Lady Gaga and Mother Teresa have in common? A lot, according to this vapid piece at The Economist: The Angel and the …
True virtue has no limits, but goes on and on, and especially holy charity, which is the virtue of virtues, and which having a definite object, would become infinite …