Sunday Night Journal 2012
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This will be the last Sunday Night Journal, at least in this form—I'm holding open the possibility of reviving it as a simple journal, not a weekly essay. I’ve kept it going for eight years, from 2004 through 2012, with a year off in 2009. And now I want to turn my attention to other…
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Always Winter and Never Christmas? That, as everyone who's read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe knows, was the woeful situation of Narnia under the rule of the White Witch. And it's probably one phrase everyone who reads the book remembers. It's a brilliant way of capturing in a few words the significance not only…
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The Waning of Adulthood This is a subject that comes to mind for me sometimes when I've been watching old, which is to say roughly pre-1960, movies or TV shows, or even listening to the classic American popular songs of the pre-rock-and-roll 20th century. To develop fully a thesis on this topic would require a…
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Some Pictures I had a very busy weekend which left me with no time to write about the thing I'd been thinking about in odd moments over the week. Such thoughts as I had were pretty disorganized and I'm not sure the whole thing, which had to do with the nature of adulthood in our…
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Some More Old Movies I see it's been about six weeks since my last set of movie commentaries; in that post I defined an "old movie" as "one that was old when I was young, which is to say, something made before roughly 1960." So it looks like I've watched roughly one movie per week…
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Don and the Unprofitable Servant When you pick up a hitchhiker, there’s a moment when he opens the door and you look at each other, and you’re both wondering whether you’ve made a big mistake: Is this guy going to do me some kind of harm? I could see that question in the eyes of…
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Can This Marriage Be Saved?: On the Meaning of Sex, by J. Budziszewski. Once when I was, as best I can remember, in my early teens, and spending the night at, as best I can remember, my maternal grandmother's house, I was looking for something to read and couldn't find anything except a stack of…
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A Litany of Election Complaints I have to do this, but when I'm done I plan to abstain from talking about politics at least until the turn of the year. I'm also going to limit, if I can, the amount of time I spend reading political news and commentary. And if I can't limit it,…
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Election Eve Thoughts: Which Is To Be Master? "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master — that's all." I really didn't want to write about politics again, but with election hysteria at its height I'm having difficulty putting…
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An Opportunity Not Just Missed But Thwarted What was noticeable from the start was that no evidence was produced in support of this accusation; the thing was simply asserted with an air of authority. And the attack was made with a maximum of personal libel and with complete irresponsibility as to any effects it might…
Light On Dark Water 