Books

Townhall has a bullet-like summary of Ben Shapiro's book, Porn Generation. The book sounds like it's worth reading, though we suspect it rehashes a lot of the same information that anyone with a sane eye on our culture already knows. Link [http://www.townhall.com/bookclub/

While reading from Boswell's Life of Johnson last night, Eric Scheske ran across this: > 'But, (said he,) before leaving England I am to take a jaunt to Oxford . . .' We realize Boswell wrote during the comma's halcyon days (if you want another example of

Horror shows what happens without good. Because all goodness comes from God, horror points to God. It's not as perverse as it sounds, though others have done a better job of articulating the legitimacy of the macabre (we believe Russell Kirk wrote about it, which isn't

Two years ago, Human Events similarly compiled a list of ten books every student should read in college. 1. The Bible 2. The Federalist Papers 3. Democracy in America 4. The Divine Comedy 5. The Republic 6. The Politics 7. Nicomachaean Ethics 8. City of God 9. Confessions 10. Reflections

We don't have an opinion on the matter, but this blogger and novelist raises interesting points about U.S. copyright protections. Link [http://www.maxbarry.com/2005/06/09/news.html#copywrong]. Excerpt: > We invented copyright to encourage innovation: to make it worthwhile for people to create

Christianity Today has run a decent article about Orestes Brownson. Link [http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2005/003/23.33.html]. The article has a few serious flaws, which is predictable since the article is apparently written by a non-Catholic. Brownson's later life (from his conversion to Catholicism

Livio De Marchi carved an entire house so it seems to have been assembled from books. Pretty wild. Link [http://www.liviodemarchi.com/casauk.htm].

Lew Rockwell has a great review of Thomas Woods' How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization. We enthusiastically agree with every part of the review, including the statement that this book should be in every Catholic home. Link [http://www.lewrockwell.com/mcmaken/mcmaken107.html]. Excerpts: > Conditioned early

John Robson has written a nice review of Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom (1944). It's not often you get to read about that classic, so we thought Robson's description of the thrust of the book worth re-producing (no link available): > Hayek'