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Give Adults the Money

The clever and brilliant (the two don't always go together) Charles Murray throws down a paradoxical challenge to America: use its flood of money to end the welfare state by giving money to Americans. His new book (In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State) comes

Monk Leaps

This must make the smarmy Brown one really proud [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/03/22/nmonk22.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/03/22/ixhome.html] : > A monk may have leapt to his death from a monastery after reading The Da Vinci Code,

More Vinci

The Christian Science Monitor has run an extended piece about Christians' efforts to derail The Da Vinci Code. [http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0322/p13s01-lire.html] It's mostly a re-hash of stuff I've already mentioned on this site. The best part is this simple observation:

Electric Kool-Aid

The sixties have always fascinated me, and not just in a nauseous way. I've read Gitlin and Horowitz's histories, I've read plenty of Kerouac and an assortment of others. But I've never read The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test [http://www.cjr.org/

Bond

Interesting Christopher Hitchens piece in The Atlantic Monthly about Ian Fleming, who is described as "sadist, a narcissist, and an all-around repressed pervert." I've read a few Bond books, at the request of my wife, who's a big fan (no, she's not

Crunchy Cons

Re: Crunchy Cons [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400050642/thedailyeudem-20] I started it on Saturday and finished it on Saturday. I'm not going to write a detailed review. Rather, I offer these random thoughts. First, the good news. Dreher is a delightful writer and his sentiments

Neglected Books

> Welcome to the Neglected Books page. Here you'll find lists of thousands of books that have been neglected, overlooked, forgotten, or stranded by changing tides in critical or popular taste. [http://www.neglectedbooks.com/index.html] When I first saw this, I thought, "Well, if books

Manly Men

I've been meaning to mention this all week, but haven't gotten the chance: a Boston Globe article about Harvey Mansfield's new book, Manliness. I haven't read the book, but I've read a little of Mansfield's stuff. I suspect

Wikipedia

Readers of this blog know I like Wikipedia, though I don't entirely trust it. Is it trustworthy? I think so, and so do some researchers. From The Atlantic Monthly: > [Wikipedia] is not much worse than the online version of the legendary Encyclopedia Britannica, according to a study

Welborn and Da Vinci

From the National Catholic Register's coverage of Amy Welborn's "Theology on Tap" lecture in Rome about the Da Vinci Code: > Welborn said she would rather be writing her own novels “than talking about this silly, silly book,” and that people's “unending