EWTN is airing a 13-part documentary based on Tom Woods’s 2005 book How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization. Catch it Wednesdays at 6 p.m. Eastern (or Thursday mornings at 2 a.m.).
Tom also has a new book out, which I haven’t read yet, called Sacred Then and Sacred Now: The Return of the Old Latin [...]
Next Wednesday (May 23, that is) at 7 pm in Washington’s, D.C.’s Lounge 201 (map) the Robert A. Taft Club will be holding a symposium on “The Religious Right and the Conservative Movement,” featuring Michael Tanner, Doug Bandow, and Jim Russell. We’ll not only be taking a look at the big picture of the relationship [...]
I’d meant to post some thoughts on Frank Meyer over the weekend but got a little sidetracked. My recent American Conservative article on fusionism and “liberaltarianism” is now on-line here, however, and I’ll comment on Meyer sometime in the next several days.
Even better, TAC has also put online articles by Andrew Bacevich (on the [...]
My Reason review of Damon Linker’s Theocons and Patrick Hynes’s In Defense of the Religious Right is now on-line here.
Former First Things editor Damon Linker’s new book criticizing his old boss, Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, is starting to pick up media notice. My review of The Theocons appears in the forthcoming (in about a month) December issue of Reason, along with my take on Patrick Hynes’s In Defense of the Religious Right. In the [...]
At the denouement of Auberon Waugh’s novel A Bed of Flowers (about a hippie commune set up on a Somerset farm by a drop-out businessman and his ex-Jesuit spiritual advisor), a certain Fr. Rasputian officiates at a triple wedding on the Glastonbury Tor. The nearby ruins of Glastonbury Abbey, despoiled by Henry VIII in the [...]
NRO’s Corner is all atwitter about Heather Mac Donald’s piece for The American Conservative’s sympoisum on Left and Right. The NROdniks seem especially exercised about the notion that conservatism nowadays might be crippling itself by alienating atheists and agnostics. For my part, I certainly hope something cripples nationalist “conservatism,” though I don’t think it’s likely [...]
Probably not. A few days back, Tim asked if I would solicit Paul Cantor’s opinion on Clare Asquith’s arguments for a crypto-Catholic Shakespeare. Professor Cantor said he hadn’t read her book but has been skeptical (to say the least) of the claim whenever it’s been made by others. He referred me to [...]
The Senate is proposing a constitutional amendment to prohibit blasphemy — that is, flag-burning, blasphemy against the one true all-American faith, “our nation and its values.” The Washington Post reports:
Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) cast the debate in loftier terms. “Many Americans have come to see the flag as a sacred symbol of our nation [...]
I nominated Dwight Macdonald as my first Reactionary Radicals draft pick the other day, in a post that also cited John Lukacs contrasting Henry Kissinger, the famous war criminal, and Dorothy Day, the co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement. To bring things full circle, here are a few passages from Macdonald's own essay on Day [...]