Why We Tolerate, Even Encourage, Fat People

It's interesting (and runs contrary to this essay) that our left-hemispheric modern culture goes to extremes to accommodate unusual people, like the overweight. Such tolerance, though, is born of the same dogmatism that caused the Nazis to euthanize the disabled. It's part of the postmodern

Battle of the Lightweights: Do Other Light Beers Taste Like Water?

Patrick Coffee at Wall Street Journal

Michel Foucault

I can hardly imagine a person more unlike me than Michel Foucault. Flaming homosexual (note the strong contrast!), Communist, French. But man, the more glimpses I get of him, the more I like him. Thaddeus Russell first explained Foucault's appeal, so I decided to start learning about him.

The Twitter Files Reveal an Existential Threat

John Davidson at Imprimis

Is It Even Possible for a Church to Advertise Properly?

Is it even possible to use material bait to capture a spiritual fish? Marlboro Man, meet Pastor Phil. I wrote those words back in 2005 when I heard that the United Methodist Church will start a four-week, $4 million effort to market its church. John Wesley’s spiritual descendants

Scrolling Blog: March 2023

March 31, 2023 Brews You Can Use Reminder: No BYCU next Friday: Good Friday BYCUI Thought Opera Singers are Required to be, ahem, Robust Katherine Jenkins stuns in a black cocktail dress at her gin launchThe opera singer, 42, put on a glamorous display for the launch of her own

Joe Rogan's Rant Against Christianity

If you want to see something startling, watch this clip from the Joe Rogan Experience. Now, I think Rogan is one of the most entertaining interviewers ever and I find him to be respectful and open to ideas, but at times, his views come out . . . and they come out strong

America's Shadow Self

Michael Shellenberger at City Journal

Nyssa, Tolkien, and Gibson: Holy Saturday

A meditation

William Cobbett: Radical

Plough publishes pretty pieces. This piece about the 19th-century radical William Cobbett is the latest. It discusses the centralization of agriculture that took place in England in the early 1800s and Cobbett's resistance (which made him one of GKC's heroes; he wrote a biography about