• From Toward a Truly Free Market: There are certain tendencies in human beings that allow us to make lawlike statements. People do tend to buy more of a product when it is cheaper, and they tend to make more of that product when it is dearer; between these two tendencies, we really can posit supply…

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  • In a striking coincidence, I received a review copy of this book on the same day I posted those comments about the new Distributist Review. The book is by John Médaille, the Review‘s editor, and is subtitled “A Distributist Perspective on the Role of Government, Taxes, Health Care, Deficits, and More,” and it carries a…

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  • Weekend Music Let’s see how long I can keep this string of husband-wife collaborations going. Thanks to Rob G for the link. This song is from an album released in 1997, and apparently The Sundays haven’t released anything since. According to their AMG bio, they decided to withdraw from the music biz to focus on…

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  • I know she’s serious, and it’s a serious matter, but I couldn’t help snickering a bit at the way Anne Rice has publicly repudiated Christianity. It sounds so juvenile, like a teenage girl yelling “I just…just…HATE all of you!”, bursting into tears, running off into her room and slamming the door. I really don’t know…

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  • I'm not responsible for what happens to your mind if you click here. I will note that it may take me a while to recover.

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  • Why Obama Won

    I've never seen The View but I gather it's a women's talk show on which Obama appeared yesterday. This image certainly captures a significant element of his appeal.

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  • The Endurance

    I'm embarrassed to say that I knew almost nothing about Ernest Shackleton until tonight. I knew that he was one of the explorers of one of the poles, but I didn't even know which one, and I didn't know whether he succeeded or failed, lived or died. Well, now I know, thanks to this excellent…

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  • It was also in Mooresville that I first encountered my other great love: music. It may even be a greater love; if I’d been born with more musical ability and weren’t so lazy, I might have made myself a competent performer. There is an interview with Walker Percy in which he is asked what he…

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  • This review by Craig Burrell of a book about the liturgy is itself an excellent essay on the topic.

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