State of the Culture
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Because…climate change! (sorry, couldn't resist, in light of the discussion on the previous post, as well as the recent one about climate change)
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Which is correct? "When I graduated from high school…" or "When I graduated high school…" The second seems obviously wrong to me, both logically and in terms of what just sounds right or wrong, which is mostly the way I do grammar. But I see it constantly these days, and am wondering if I missed…
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Warhol Art Recovered from Floppies Try to imagine how much poorer we would be without this work. I think you will agree with me that the answer is "not at all."
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And difficult. I had a surprising, if not startling, conversation a couple of weeks ago with several younger people, by which I mean people in their 30s. All three of them (I think there were only three) were of the opinion that Tolkien is a very boring writer. They had tried to read The Lord…
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Craig Burrell at All Manner of Thing has an excellent review of a book I've long wanted to read, The Drama of Atheist Humanism by Henri de Lubac, S.J., which apparently makes a point similar to mine about Nietzsche and Dostoevsky. That's only part of the interest in the review, though–by all means read it…
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“Sex Box is an intriguing and original concept from a top production partner and we’re very excited about its potential, which has already been clearly demonstrated overseas — where it’s a hit,” said WE tv president Marc Juris. You can read more here but there's really not much reason to: it's a TV show where couples "have…
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Someone has created a fascinating visual depiction of the changes in the language of pop music since 1960 by graphing the occurrence of various words in the Billboard Top 100 songs from 1960 until the present. It's a slide show, including twenty or so words. Each rectangle represents a song, and darker colors represent greater…
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This is a followup to that post of a few weeks ago, What's Wrong, about the exclusion of the workers in a corporation from a share in its prosperity. Having such a share would imply a share in its un-prosperity as well, but in too many cases workers get the latter without the former. I…
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First, a piece in the National Catholic Register by Andrew Abela, dean of the School of Business and Economics at the Catholic University of America: taking his cue from the current and recent popes, he argues for the place of ethics–serious, non-libertarian, Christian ethics–in business; taking the economic system more or less as it is, he…
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I was a little disappointed when the January issue of The New Criterion arrived and I saw that a large chunk of it was occupied by a symposium called "Reagan, Thatcher, and the Special Relationship." "That sounds a bit dull," I thought. (The "special relationship" is that between the United States and Great Britain, and…
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