A really brilliant analysis.    (more…)

“People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education. If a man carries many such memories with him into life, he is safe to the end of his days, and if one has only one good memory left in one’s heart, even that may sometime be the means of saving us.”

Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov.

This is a really outstanding rant on modern weddings. (more…)

There is no other way and no third option and no compromise and no half measures. The door of the Ark will soon be shut. The windows of heaven open, and the fountains of the sea break forth, those who are outside must drown, and those who are half inside must be crushed in the jamb.

This doesn’t mean we send in the missionaries, but in the histories written in Heaven, this could be the news of the decade.

Are more likely to play God.

America doesn’t have an economic problem. It has a lifestyle problem. It has a demographic problem. (more…)

Dance troupes are turning out the lights. (more…)

We has it. (more…)

The GOP is bragging that its corruption is petty and its gross malfeasance doesn’t quite rise to the level of a hanging offense. (more…)

The best fantasy is about what is lost and gone, but surprisingly some of the most moving science fiction is too. (more…)

I would prefer not to.

Here is a short theory of the atonement. (more…)

Ross Douthat points out the benefits of what we used to call prejudice before we meant it pejoratively.

Americans don’t have friends no more, the essayist says.