I’m going to confess at the beginning that this is not an area of expertise for me. I did fairly well in Econ 100, but that was over a decade ago, and it was a bit of a joke class. Since then, the closest thing I’ve done to studying economics was to watch Niall Ferguson’s documentary on money. But, despite my lack of training in economics, I do have a couple ideas about usury that I’d like to present to... Read more
David Atkins has a great post up over at Digby’s joint. The gist: (more…) Read more
Yes, it’s been going on for a few days. Mark Shea has dared to criticize Michael Voris for this video: (more…) Read more
Matthew 13: 44-52 Jesus said to his disciples: “The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field, which a person finds and hides again, and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls. When he finds a pearl of great price, he goes and sells all that he has and buys it. Again, the kingdom of heaven is... Read more
A Guest Post by Josh Brumfield As a father of a 2 and half year old boy and a newborn baby girl, the recent posts on the disciplining of children caught my eye. Nathan attempted to show that spanking done “properly” need not be violent but can be a useful tool for disciplining young children. At least one person (Sofia Loves Wisdom) felt that adults only employ such methods of discipline against children because children are smaller and can’t defend... Read more
Perhaps it is because I have lived in New Orleans for the past three years, but the name of biblical scholar Brant Pitre has become well known to me. He teaches at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans, and just about every young adult Catholic I know has met him, read him or listened to his tapes. His recent book signing of “Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist” was a major event for many of my friends. The... Read more
We are becoming a nation of barbarian clowns. I’m speaking the obvious. Look with clear eyes at television, or any form of mass media. Hell, look critically at lots of your fellow citizens. We’re crude, crass, money-grubbing, uncouth, violent, predatory, childish clowns. (more…) Read more
This is a guest post of sorts. My older son likes to make-up stories and his brother often chimes in. Here is one written today. It is entitled “The Bear That Lived in a Tree.” (more…) Read more
As a young man, author and blogger Dmitri Orlov witnessed the collapse of the Soviet Union. Now living in the United States, Orlov detects many of the same signs of economic, social and political disintegration that he saw in his homeland during the late ’80s and early ’90s. I’ve recently re-read Orlov’s book, “Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects.” It’s an eye-opening book. Borrowing from the famed five stages of grief described by psychologist Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Orlov has... Read more
There is bound to be formed a solid right that is determined to live in a world that no longer exists. There is bound to be formed a scattered left captivated by now this, now that development, exploring now this and now that new possibility. But what will count is a perhaps not numerous center, big enough to be at home in both the old and the new, painstaking enough to work out one by one the transitions to be... Read more
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