Sunday Night Journal 2004
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Sunday Night Journal — March 14, 2004 Although I have pretty strong political convictions and opinions, I have not wanted to spend much time expressing them here. (If you want to classify my politics, I’m a conservative of more traditionalist than libertarian bent, and Russell Kirk’sTen Conservative Principles are more or less my own.) This
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Sunday Night Journal — March 7, 2004 I believe it has been more than once remarked, memorably by C. S. Lewis, that Christianity encompasses equally the mysterious and the reasonable aspects of religion—what Lewis called the thick and the thin and I call Blood and Light. On the one hand dangerous incomprehensible powers with definite
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Sunday Night Journal — February 29, 2004 When someone begins a sentence with the words “I’m not superstitious, but…” you can be pretty sure he is about to confess a superstition. So let me phrase this a bit more straightforwardly and precisely than that: I don’t consider myself to be superstitious, but I do sometimes
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Sunday Night Journal — February 22, 2004 Mardi Gras in New Orleans is said to be scandalous, but I’ve never been, so I don’t know for sure. Almost everyone I’ve known who has witnessed it has simply said “It’s crazy.” As a student of human nature I have sometimes asked for more details, but have
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Sunday Night Journal — February 15, 2004 A correspondent writes, in reference to my February 1 entry: …that the music of a time doesn’t necessarily reflect the mood. Look at depression-era jazz, for instance—much of it is quite exciting and joyful…the idea of course is that people need joy and excitement when times are hard.
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Sunday Night Journal — February 8, 2004 The biggest and most ludicrous news story of the past week has been the brief exposure of a pop singer’s breast during a half-time concert at the Super Bowl. I myself did not witness the great event, although I watched most of the game. As probably happened in
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Sunday Night Journal — February 1, 2004 In an otherwise conventional speech (reported here) [sorry, that link is no longer valid -mh 6/22/2010] justifying an abortion she had in the 1950s before she was married, the novelist Ursula Le Guin recently made an odd and extremely sad statement: that if she had not been able
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Sunday Night Journal — January 25, 2004 When President Bush announced recently that he wants to revitalize our space exploration program with projects for establishing a permanent base on the moon and sending men to Mars, my immediate reaction was excitement. I find it, in fact, a bit surprising that anyone would react otherwise, but
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Sunday Night Journal — January 18, 2004 As if to remind me of a fundamental contrariness in the nature of things, certain signs of illness began to make themselves known to me around 4pm on the Friday before this three-day weekend. Apart from a few chronic structural problems, such as a bad back, I’m quite
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Sunday Night Journal — January 18, 2004 As if to remind me of a fundamental contrariness in the nature of things, certain signs of illness began to make themselves known to me around 4pm on the Friday before this three-day weekend. Apart from a few chronic structural problems, such as a bad back, I’m quite
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