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Prophet McLuhan on the World Series of Poker's Popularity "Poker is a game that has often been cited as the expression of all the complex attitudes and unspoken values of a competitive society. It calls for shrewdness, aggression, trickery, and unflattering appraisals of character. . . Poker is intensely

"If I had to single out one piece of writing which was more responsible than anything else for my becoming a Catholic, it would that essay of Kierkegaard's." Walker Percy, referring to Kierkegaard's essay on "The Difference between a Genius and an Apostle.

Some Education from Henry Adams The "profoundest lessons are not the lessons of reason; they are sudden strains that permanently warp the mind." "The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express." "Friends are born, not made." "A friend in

Books I recommend to young adults James Schall, Another Sort of Learning. Read this while you're still in college. Its primary value rests in the writers Schall introduces (the lists of books in the back of each chapter are excellent). C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity. All of Lewis&

"Christians should be the salt, not the syrup, of the earth." Georges Bernanos "What matters is not what ideas do to men but what men do to their ideas; how and when they choose them, and how and why they accommodate them to their own wishes, interests,

You'll have to excuse this salacious slice of commentary. The subject matter requires ribaldry. There's a rock-n-roll morning show in my little corner of the world that is hosted by two male DJs and a female sidekick. The DJs have been in the same time slot

"When the motorcar was new, it exercised the typical mechanical pressure of explosion and separation of function. It broke up family life, or so it seemed, in the 1920s. It separated work and domicile, as never before. It exploded each city into a dozen suburbs, and then extended many

Fyodor Dosoyevsky, Orestes Brownson's junior by eighteen years, would write on a theme similar to Brownson's concerns about humanitarian democracy. Just as Brownson worried that North American progressives would sacrifice men on the altar of the abstractions known as “Man” and “The Rights of Man,” Dostoyevsky

"The glory to which man is called is that he should grow more godlike by growing ever more human." Dumitru Staniloae "Christ is looking at us through the eyes of all those whom we meet. Once we recognize his universal presence, all our acts of practical service

The World of Two Consenting Adults and Do as Thou Wilt 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 Two: “Another! What is that, five?” Person One: “Yeah; five kids, can you