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April 2014

April 30, 2014
My most recent pieces for The American Conservative are about bargains that are questionably made and...
April 29, 2014
In 2014, I’m reading and blogging through Pope Francis/Cardinal Bergoglio’s Open Mind, Faithful Heart: Reflections on...
April 27, 2014
Today is Divine Mercy Sunday, which providentially turned out to be the day my friends...
April 26, 2014
In two of my recent posts for The American Conservative, I got to review Megan McArdle's...
April 25, 2014
--- 1 --- Everyone's still talking about the data journalism sites Vox, FiveThirtyEight, and the...
April 24, 2014
Today, I'm over at First Things to talk about prisons, communities, and cell phones. Until cellphones made...
April 23, 2014
To celebrate Shakespeare's birthday, here's a sonnet that's particularly on point for this blog. Sonnet...
April 23, 2014
When it comes to the problem of how to get some of the dust off of...
April 22, 2014
In 2014, I’m reading and blogging through Pope Francis/Cardinal Bergoglio’s Open Mind, Faithful Heart: Reflections on...
April 21, 2014
This weekend, my DC friends and I will meet to hold a debate on the...
April 19, 2014
From a very old Holy Saturday sermon: What is happening? Today there is a great...
April 18, 2014
In Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter's The Light of Other Days, a scientist invents little...
April 16, 2014
Over at Slate Star Codex, Scott has an excellent post on the epistemological dangers of...
April 15, 2014
On Palm Sunday in Catholic churches, the Passion narrative is read aloud.  The whole congregation...
April 14, 2014
The Pope Francis bookclub will resume next week.  Since we finished the "Encountering Jesus" section...
April 13, 2014
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, and, over at The New York...
April 12, 2014
Time for another roundup of this week's writing for The American Conservative.  First up, my review...
April 11, 2014
--- 1 --- This week, the theme for the links is experimentation and innovation.  First...
April 10, 2014
Have you ever played misery poker? It was a pretty popular game when I was...
April 09, 2014
There's an unpleasant undertone to Terry Firma's vision of a kinder, humbler Christianity over at...
April 08, 2014
I finished two novels recently, neither of which I would urgently recommend to someone, but...
April 07, 2014
In 2014, I’m reading and blogging through Pope Francis/Cardinal Bergoglio’s Open Mind, Faithful Heart: Reflections on...
April 06, 2014
This week, all my posts for The American Conservative had a slightly tech-y bent, starting with...
April 04, 2014
--- 1 --- Scott of Slate Star Codex posted a short story this week which...
April 03, 2014
Hot on the heels of that excellent NYT piece on the autistic boy whose family learned...
April 02, 2014
This month, the saint I drew from Jen Fulwiler's randomizer was Saint Clare of Montefalco....
April 01, 2014
There are two very amusing April Fools' Day jokes that I've run across that are...
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