Category: articles
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give each other visions
“We are all patriots and rebels, at war with one another and ourselves. And we give each other visions.” — Gary Wills
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Trump Towers Kill Trump Windmill Idiocy : 100x More Birds Than Windmills
Again with the Trump windmill idiocy. Donald Trump recently said: “Alternative energy is so expensive. And honestly, it’s not working so good. The wind power kills all your birds. All your birds, killed. You know, the environmentalists never talk about that.” This is hilarious. So hilarious that shortly after I meditated on the numbers behind all…
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Book Club Calendar (for people who don’t have time for book club calendars)
After much deliberation and discussion, the Book Club for People Who Have No Time for Book Clubs decided to have more structure and schedule. I wanted to keep our leisurely pace — a book a month is a bit too much for us all and we’d prefer to reflect on them a little bit more. So…
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Celestial Consequences
Some of your bubbles drifted up through the branches, even above the trees. You two were too intent on the cat to see the celestial consequences of your worldly endeavors. They were very lovely. — Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
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The American Constitution is like The Spanish Inquisition — Chesterton
“The American Constitution does resemble the Spanish Inquisition in this: that it is founded on a creed. America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence; perhaps the only piece of practical politics that…
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thinking something
‘It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out.’ — HG Wells
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Beautiful to Me
I really can’t tell what’s beautiful anymore. I passed two young fellows on the street the other day. I know who they are, they work at the garage. They’re not churchgoing, either one of them, just decent rascally young fellows who have to be joking all the time, and there they were, propped against the…
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Rio Sunset Park
Ghosts in the gold, ghosts in the late Grate growing wet from grey waters. Ghosts in the water gushing its spray: Men in it which men aren’t mainly, Shadows and shades, shadows in spades Twinned and twining, twisting liquid Pining from physique, from playing rain: Where are the men within? White water at Nighttime walks…
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A Defense of Pokémon Go
Three multi-millionaires. A father of four. A PhD in agricultural science. An Oscar winner. A crowd of twelve-year-olds outside a custard joint in St. Louis. A retiree. A CTO. A teen who hadn’t seen the sun in months. Professional artists — a filmmaker, a novelist, a painter, a stylist, a musician. All of these…
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who they really are…
When someone shows you who they really are, believe them the first time. — Maya Angelou
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War for Your Mind: Information in 2016
Today’s Guest Post comes from Cassie Phillips of Culture Coverage: There’s a war for your mind. While this statement can be cast aside as hyperbolic fearmongering, there is no denial that media, art, words and publishing have had a massive impact in molding our social mindset throughout history. From the playwrights of ancient Greece to our modern…
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David Bentley Hart Articles: A Megalist
(I assume DBH hates portmanteau as much as I, so it seemed fitting to create one for him for the cover image). Back in 2007, David W. Congdon over at The Fire and The Rose compiled a list of David Bentley Hart articles published by First Things. I want to expand on his list to include…