In a high culture that no longer believes in beauty or meaning, art becomes reduced to interesting gestures. Consider this “work,” as described by art critic Blake Gopnik: On Saturday evening, in the back room at Postmasters Gallery in Chelsea, veteran dealer Magdalena Sawon gave
That’s what’s happening in France, where “95% of couples taking up the pacte civil de solidarite (Pacs) in 2009 were heterosexual. As the number of straight French couples opting for Pacs has grown, the number of marriages has shrunk, to the point that there are
Steve Jobs, the mind behind Apple computing, is making a stand against pornography, even though that happens to be one of the online world’s biggest business! Comments from Pete at Grace-City: Jobs has argued that he wants his portable computer devices to not sell or
The notable scholar and Catholic commentator Anthony Esolen–whom I have had the privilege of hanging out with at a classical education conference at Our Savior’s in Houston–has written a fine essay on Shakespeare’s consistent theme of chastity, not just for women, but (rare in his
China is thinking way beyond making money by trade and overseas investment. James McGregor tells about still-Communist China’s latest economic plans: How do we overcome the fundamental disconnect between our system of scattered bureaucratic responsibilities and almost no national economic planning vs. China’s top-down, disciplined
Usually, my “American Idol” favorites never make it all that far. This year, though, the two performers that I have been pulling for and voting for all along are the two finalists! Crystal Bowersox and Lee DeWyze. Of the two, I’m not sure who I
The document dump required for nominees to the Supreme Court includes Elena Kagan’s Master’s Thesis, which is a criticism of the 1960’s-era Warren court’s manipulation of the law to advance its ideas of social justice: The documents include the thesis Kagan wrote in 1983 during
Why is this wrong? As far as God is concerned, someone is unemployed if the person is not working for Him, said a Latin American mission leader at a global missions conference in Tokyo. Many people argue that they have a job and have plenty
An exceedingly odd tidbit from The Washington Post’s political columnist Perry Bacon: Democrats should not talk about “the environment,” “the unemployed” or “the uninsured.” Instead, they should replace those phrases with ones that have more appeal to voters, such as “the air we breathe and
Talk about “what’s in a name,” as in the post below. Consider naming your boy “Rand.” That is what small-government congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul did. It seems exceedingly odd for a Christian to name his kid after the militantly atheistic virtue-of-selfishness philosopher Ayn
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