WHAT LIES BENEATH that really, really long conservative-philosophy post: a review of the fantastic comic Three Shadows; lots and lots more comics reviews, superhero and art-comics and in-between; and a blogwatch. Read more

SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL: Here, Helen Rittelmeyer says a lot, and doesn’t wander off for decades the way I do below. If you want some sense of the intellectual situation on the Right, but you don’t want to fight through the weeds below (or even if you do!), I highly recommend her post. I don’t endorse everything–if you want to know what I think, I’m always a pretty good source–but this is an awesome post. Helen’s always a few steps beyond,... Read more

I GRABBED YOU BY THE GILDED BEAMS–OH, THAT’S WHAT TRADITION MEANS!: Very scattered notes on a dust-up. Once upon a time, an undergraduate posted her “political autobiography,” under the title, “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.” …And then they exploded. So far, the comments-boxing has punched blithely away at foundationalism, antifoundationalism, traditions, traditionalism, communities, communitarianism, communities unless they’re full of hippies, Tom Eliot’s translations, Godel, things that aren’t Godel, James Dobson for some reason,... Read more

LIFELINES: THREE SHADOWS. The sudden loss of a child is as inexplicable as it is horrifying. But equally devastating is a death foretold–the bad diagnosis, the crossfire of hope and terror, the attempts to somehow accept the catastrophe before it’s even happened. Three Shadows (a comic by Cyril Pedrosa, originally in French but now available in English) is a fable in which a father tries to cheat fate. Louis, Joachim’s father, is living in a rural idyll which is disrupted... Read more

THE SQUID STAYS IN THE PICTURE: Comics reviews! These are a) not all the comics I’ve read lately–I really don’t have anything to say about Cable & Deadpool except “that was fun!” or Deadpool Classic except “wow, Rob Liefeld is really as awful as everyone said!”; b) not all the comics I’ve read lately–the very best one will get its own post; and c) in order of how well they satisfied the expectations with which I approached them, from least... Read more

She’s my bus seductress, she smells of old cash,Drinks Guinness off-duty, eats blogwatch and mash… Light on Dark Water: “The Truth Hurts So This Should Be Painless”…. Megan McArdle: A reading list for an economic crisis. You know, in case you happen to run into one somewhere. Postmodern Conservative: Ten songs for mass transit. Claw of the Conciliator tipped me off to a fascinating interview with John K. of Propagandhi and (more relevantly to my interests!) the Weakerthans, in the... Read more

LADY WISHFORT. Why, if she should be innocent, if she should be wronged after all, ha? I don’t know what to think, and I promise you, her education has been unexceptionable. I may say it, for I chiefly made it my own care to initiate her very infancy in the rudiments of virtue, and to impress upon her tender years a young odium and aversion to the very sight of men; ay, friend, she would ha’ shrieked if she had... Read more

yes, I’m going to post something about that yale vs freddie thing soon, probably tomorrow night (Friday). among other things, I think both sides are partly wrong, and I don’t know that the post of mine Will keeps linking does all the work he wants it to do…. if you don’t care about that stuff, keep in mind that tomorrow will also bring posts on congreve, the weakerthans, and lots and lots of comics. but right now I’m tired. come... Read more

NEOJAPONISME. Oooh shiny! Read more

HOW THE “IRON MAN” DVD SET COULD’VE BEEN MORE AWESOME: A VERY SHORT LIST. 1. Put the scenes from RDJ’s screen test in the film 2. Include that “No Handlebars” fanvid (I feel weird about including a link, but if you’re having a hard time finding it, email me) 3. DVD commentary by Samir Khader 4. Force Marvel to re-release “Armor Wars” at all, and “Demon in a Bottle” in a paperback version; also re-start The Order (more on this... Read more