I received in the mail today a copy of Thought and Action, the NEA higher education journal. I don’t know whether to laugh or to cry. from an essay on academic freedom: An investigation of academic freedom needs to include not only examples of...
Theresa’s been telling me about a new Domenican priest at UD who gives awesome homilies. Evidently she not the only one who thinks so. He’s had such demand for copies of them that he’s created a blog and is now posting them.
I haven’t blogged on this yet. Partly because for the first couple of months I wanted to treasure the knowledge just with friends and family, not trumpet it out to the world. I can’t exactly say why that was the case, and Domenic...
Today Dom introduced me to a new podcast called Word Nerds. One of the regular features is a rude word of the day. Today’s was “troll.” They explained that “troll” is currently used to describe a person who...
Random House’s official site for Dorothy Dunnett’s Lymond Chronicles, some of my favorite books. Interesting study questions, not that I’m likely to find many people to discuss these books with. My college buddy Claudia introduced...
“Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand.” -Mark Abley
In his article, “God & Bertie Wooster” Joseph Bottum, one of my favorite contemporary poets and commentator on literature, explains why Wodehouse is a necessary antidote to Nietzche and all other ailments fo the modern waste land...
A critique of postmodern literary theory.
Dressing up old ideas in post-modern clothes
Download the mp3s here Surprisingly enough (to me) this was at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Two very good lectures and also a good two-part panel discussion where Pearce’s cockney sounds quite fun next to the other prof’s...
I stumbled across the weblog of a community of cloistered Domenican sisters in New Jersey. Yes, that’s right New Jersey! You know these ladies have their heads on straight and their hearts in the right place because the permanent picture on...