The Logic of Secession–The Ukraine
A conservative on FB has made the plausible argument that Putin is not entitled to the Tsar’s patrimony, to which I responded:
Author: Thomas Fleming
Cabbages and Kings, II
Bossi begins his memoirs with a depressing visit back to Cassano Magnago: the highway cuts right through what had been parkland, cement houses have sprouted up like tumors, and everywhere is the sound of traffic, the smell of asphalt.
Unjustified Justifications
On FB I am forever seeing disputes breaking out over various theological points, disputes between Catholics and Protestants of course, but also between Tridentine and Vatican II Catholics and between various schools of Protestant thought (Lutheran, Calvinist, Pre-millennialist).
Art For What’s Sake, IX: Special Effects
“This is all very well, if you are inclined to saints and mystics, but I thought we are trying to answer the simple question: Are movies art?
Religio Philologi, Lessons for Septuagesima Sunday
Dr. Johnson once told Boswell that he often attended simple prayer services because he did not want people to think he only went to church to be entertained by the sermons. Those were the days!
Art For What’s Sake, Part VIII: The Artist
Are you saying that it makes a difference, what kind of a man the artist is? I mean a difference to his art.
Our Schedule
The good news is that we are leaving on Friday, January 28. We’re headed toward South Carolina….
Art for What’s Sake, VII: The Pornography of Violence
I brought up movies only because many of my favorites have a fair amount of violence in them, and you seem to be lumping violence with pornography.
The Autodidact: Homer
In this series, I want you to do your best to forget what you have been told to believe. We are going to concentrate more on what the Greeks said about themselves, and, more than that, we are going to compare what they said with how they lived.
