Hi, Gerv, I’m sure you’re inundated, and you sure as heck don’t know me, so there’s no need to respond to this. But I really appreciated your post the other day, and wanted to share my reaction with you. Perhaps it … Continue reading
This piece is inspired entirely by Peggy McIntosh’s classic article “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” to which I am immeasurably indebted. I have noticed lately that my liberal-progressive friends have begun casually adopting the tools of gender and race … Continue reading
Fact-checking is a decadent industry. Mainstream fact-checkers at the Washington Post and PolitiFact rate politicians’ claims on multi-point scales ranging from “Pants On Fire” to “The Geppetto Checkmark.” To manage these multi-point scales, fact-checkers must resort to subjective measurements of “relevant … Continue reading
I have been raising the alarm loud and long on my Facebook page over the NSA’s decision to take up the mantle of the surveillance state that the Stasi laid down twenty-five years ago. But I haven’t said much here on … Continue reading
SPOILER ALERT: At the end of this article, we will reveal that Republicans have in fact blocked only 8 Obama nominees. The golden rule of infographics: the vaguer the source cited, the falser the claim. Today, Senate Democrats under Sen. … Continue reading
EDIT: Much as I’ve enjoyed writing this post (the quotes especially!), reading the reaction to it (discussion is good!), and digging deeper into the subject (who started this campaign?), it turns out that the subject falls within the parameters of … Continue reading
Liberty: The God That Failed is an imposing tome, clocking in at over 600 pages of small-print, heavily footnoted text. Christopher Ferrara had a great deal to say, and spared no effort in saying it – although he promises to … Continue reading
Matthew Scully’s opus longum on abortion and animal rights at National Review featured a brief quote from Pope Benedict XVI (among other Catholic thinkers) on Man’s relationship with beasts. I looked up the full quote for context, and thought it was compelling enough … Continue reading
Today, someone, pointing with concern at a couple of pieces in the American Spectator, asked me what I thought about the Pope. This is what I said: I think that the majority of living Catholics have become very used to living … Continue reading
Every year, the American Library Association, pious lover of books, freedom, and openness to sharing absolutely all ideas regardless of their content (unless you live in Cuba or your particular set of crazy ideas doesn’t follow rigid leftist doctrine), runs a weeklong event called “Banned … Continue reading