Electric cars are quiet. Therefore, no one can hear them coming. Therefore, they are hazardous. So engineers are working to develop artificial sounds for them. Under consideration are chimes, melodies, and a whirring sound. Once all cars are electric, can you imagine the sounds of
A lunar probe sent off by India has found evidence that the moon has water. That may make a moon colony possible. But it might not be an American colony. I wonder if this breakthrough may signal a shift away from American scientific and technological
Some time ago, I enlisted the aid of a student, Stewart, to update my blog software. He also added all kinds of bells and whistles that you can’t see but that make my blogging much easier. Now Stewart and some of his comrades at Patrick
Joe Carter at First Things alerts us to an important post from David Koyzis at Notes from a Byzantine-Rite Calvinist: Why abortion is different. He says that, yes, there are many political issues that we should be concerned about. But abortion is not just one
Art historian Birgit Schwarz is making the case that Adolf Hitler, who considered himself an artistic genius, was motivated by the bohemian notion of many artsy types even today, in which they consider themselves above the norms that govern the uncreative masses, that ordinary rules
Good discussion yesterday of Dan Brown’s deadly prose. But this raises another question. Even though this writing is demonstrably, laughably, absurdly BAD, it will sell gazillions of copies. Probably more than the very good writing of our own Lars Walker, with his new novel West
We had talked about Bob Dylan’s upcoming Christmas album. Here is the album cover with snippets of each song: It’s good! Don’t you think? It’s a combination of the happy traditional sounds, plus grit. That’s a great style for the Incarnation. Proceeds from the album
At the World Congress on Families in Amsterdam, Dr. Patrick Fagan said that we are transitioning from a monogamous culture to a polyamorous culture. A sample, via Joe Carter: The defining difference between the two is the sexual ideal embraced. The traditional family of Western
Dan Brown, the author of The Da Vinci Code who thinks Christianity is a vast conspiracy and who confounds fiction with history, has just published another book, The Lost Symbol. This one, from what I gather, is about the Masons, Washington, D.C., and, of course,
Nearly everything you know about Puritans is wrong. The Thirsty Theologian quotes my friend Leland Ryken’s illuminating book on the subject, Worldly Saints: Everywhere we turn in Puritan writing on the subject we find sex affirmed as good in principle. [William] Gouge referred to physical
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