“THEOLOGY OF THE BODY IN PAIN.” I review The Body in Pain, and talk about torture more generally, for Inside Catholic. Read more

Beauty is an encroachment upon autonomy.—Sexual Personae Read more

“REPEAT THE SOUNDING JOY”: I have a piece on repetitive prayer, in the newly-relaunched Godspy! Read more

Romantic imagination faced evil without the organized certitudes of church and state. The power to punish was taken over by the self. Hence the nineteenth-century abundance of daemonic epiphanies of the double. The self ambushes, harasses, flails itself.—Sexual Personae Read more

I LIVE IN A CONDO: And other children’s educational classics, from a world where white people are portrayed like American Indians…. Read more

YOU CAN HAVE TWO WIVES IN THE ARMY, BUT ONE’S TOO MANY FOR ME: I’ll be on a panel on “Is Marriage Outdated?”, this February 12. Details: AFF DC February Roundtable: Is Marriage Outdated?The America’s Future Foundation will hold its monthly roundtable on Tuesday, February 12th. In the spirit of Valentines Day, we will consider the question of marriage. Is it outdated? Or, should we care about preserving the institution now more than ever? Joining us will be James Polous,... Read more

BOOK MEME: I think I’ve done this before? But I was tagged, so here goes:1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).2. Open the book to page 123.3. Find the fifth sentence.4. Post the next three sentences.5. Tag five people. [I’m skipping this part. Y’all consider yourselves tagged, or not, as you prefer….] Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World: That the war deaths occurred on behalf of a terrain in... Read more

[Decadence] operaticizes by overliteralizing.—Sexual Personae Read more

MY SISTER on a FindLaw piece about fanfiction, in which she was quoted. Her reaction to the piece is pretty similar to my own, though much more knowledgeable! …[T]he fact that Hilden can’t tell we’re already in the nightmare world suggests something about how scary we ought to find it. more (not legally relevant, but possibly interesting: me on fanfiction) Read more

MORE FAVORITE BIBLE VERSES! Yay. (Mine are here.) Read more