Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Items of Interest, 17 April 2012

Thomas Fleming, The Decline of the American Empire

Christopher Blum, Man, Proud Man (A review of Domenico Losurdo's Liberalism: A Counter-History)

Mike Church, Restoring Republicanism as the Proper Form of American Governance

Bar Refaeli Unloads on Handsy Airport Screener -- You MUST Be a Lesbian

'Heretics': The Crisis Of American Christianity
Ross Douthat's Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics
(Religion News, Christianity Today)
He'll be on C-Span.

Joel Salatin on Life: Participate Viscerally
Joel Salatin responds to New York Times’ ‘Myth of Sustainable Meat’

Jailing Americans for Profit: The Rise of the Prison Industrial Complex

Health Care in the Age of Decline

PJB, Bibi's Dilemma -- and Barack's

First Solar's Loan Guarantees: Money Laundering For Obama Cronies

The Rise of the Killer Drones: How America Goes to War in Secret

Kelley Vlahos, Forget Katniss, We Need Montag

Daniel Larison, Would Romney’s Foreign Policy Be Significantly Different?

The Passion of Cesar Chavez

Economics:
Commentary: The world is finite, isn't it? by Tadeusz Patzek (EB)
The Trouble with Money by Chris Martenson
Relocalization:
Small scale farmers organise the International Peasant Day of Struggle
Getting Our Land Back (EB)
How we can bring the world out of the mess in which it finds itself by Tuhi-Ao Bailey (EB)
Limits to Growth – of stuff, value, and GDP by Brian Czech (EB)
David Holmgren: The reverse of globalization by Karen Rybold-Chin (EB)


Clothesline art, laundry activism, cash savings by Lindsay Curren (EB)

Connecting with community through storytelling by Mary Logan (EB)
Storytellers like Robert M. Peters...

Education:
Patrick Deneen, Against Great Books

Sophia Institute Press Becomes Publishing Division of Two Leading Catholic Colleges

It's the first I've heard of Holy Spirit College; I knew Sophia Institute Press had joined with Thomas More last year.

Catholic:
A Guy's Take on Modesty--From a Beach Trip
Father Spitzer: Modern-day Renaissance man
Recognition finally for a warrior priest's heroics
Epiclesis in Eucharistic Prayer I



NLM: The Resurrection in Medieval Art

Gregorios Stathis Byzantine Church Music

Orthodox:
Paschal Encyclical of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew 2012
Paschal Message of His Holiness KIRILL Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia

В діаспорі святкували український Великдень (Відео)

Feminism and Courtship/Misandry:
The Curse of Cohabitation
Shacking Up vs. Tying the Knot

The Pay Gap is a Lie



Feminism in Academic History?
Deviant Women in Courtly and Popular Medieval Castilian Poetry

‘Stronger than men and braver than knights’: women and the pilgrimages to Jerusalem and Rome in the later middle ages

Diet and Health
MDA: Why Fast? Part 6: Choosing a Method


Music:


Carolina Chocolate Drops "Lights In The Valley"


Anonymous 4: Celebrating 25 Years of Championing Music
Performing at Stanford tomorrow.

Kickstarter: The Porchligh Sessions (documentary) - FB




US Army:
Army tightens rules on hair, tattoos, makeup

MACP 12APR2012 PART 1

Part 2

Misc:
How to Look Like You're Special Forces
Your Mancave Needs More Beard

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