Showing posts with label Rebecca Solnit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rebecca Solnit. Show all posts

Saturday, July 28, 2012

A Modern-Day Prophet

A Jeremiah for Everyone
From the July 30, 2012, issue of NR
By John J. Miller

The piece to which Rod Dreher and Jerry Salyer responded.


Related:
Revolutionary Plots by Rebecca Solnit
Urban agriculture is producing a lot more than food

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Items of Interest, 12 July 2012

Kevin Carson, “Green Economy?” We’re Not Green Enough to Buy It
Carson: Time to decide, "Green" Capitalism or Solidarity Economy? You shouldn't have to think about it long.

Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, One Big Continent of Pain

Rod Dreher, A Tragic Journey To a Monastery


From Counterpunch:
Information Overload by DAVE LINDORFF
Driving a Stake Through the National Security State

Fukushima And The Nuclear Pushers by KARL GROSSMAN

Jolting The Mind For Action by RALPH NADER

Monday, May 14, 2012

Items of Interest, 14 May 2012


Doug Macgregor explains how our military reached its current state, so only desperate reform can save us
Seven predictions about our future. Most are unusual. All are certain to happen (I think)

Thomas H. Naylor on Leviathan, Secession and Vermont's Small Nation Dream (original)


Why America is Doomed to One Disaster After Another

Michael Brendan Dougherty (Business Insider) and Daniel McCarthy (The American Conservative)


What are the Purposes of Foreign Policy

What Separation of Power? - nullification

American Burke by J. David Hoeveler
Irving Babbitt formulated conservatism for a world in whirl.

The Household Gods of Freedom

Christopher Lasch, Conservative?

Thomas Storck, The Contradictions of Liberals and Conservatives

Jack Donovan, Mocking the Vote

Charles Hugh Smith, Acknowledging the Arrival of Peak Government

Understanding the Economic Justice of Marriage

The Constitution Doesn't Settle the Marriage Debate

The President’s Still Contorted Position on Same-Sex Marriage by Carson Holloway

Hilton Kramer & the critical temper by Roger Kimball

Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, American Dystopia, Fiction or Reality?

Economics and Energy:
What is Our Energy Future?

The Ten Cities Most Screwed by Peak Oil

Student Loans Weighing Down a Generation with Heavy Debt
The Ph.D. Now Comes With Food Stamps

Is It Possible To Build An Economy Without Jobs?

Wendell Berry on the Importance of Local, Sustainable Economies
Worth posting again.

Urban Design:
Won’t You Be My Neighbour?
Alexandra Singer on the future of urban planning

JHK on the CNU: Still Standing Amid the Wreckage




Catholic:
Remembering St. Josemaria Escriva
2012 Holds Multiple Anniversaries for Opus Dei
Preparing for June 26th (FB)
Video of May 5 Ordinations

Charity, War, and Peace in St. Thomas Aquinas by John Hittinger (pdf)

France celebrates Joan of Arc's 600th birthday

Filas 1: The Battle of the Sexes… can it be avoided? - soundcloud
Fr. Francis Filas, S.J.

Unlikely bedfellows (Jack Donovan and the pope)

No Doctrinal Obstacle for SSPX

English Is a Perfectly Fine Catholic Liturgical Language
My First Anglican Communion


I Can't Believe You Haven't Read KRISTIN LAVRANSDATTER

TAC: The 2012 Commencement Address of Mother Assumpta Long
College Awards its Highest Honor to Three Recipients
slideshow

When Catholics Were Cristeros

History:
Justinian’s reconquest of the West : ideology, warfare, religion, and politics in sixth-century Byzantium (PDF)

Interview with Dan Jones, author of The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England

Feminism:
A comment on "Reframing Christian Marriage"
The Ultimate Short Advice about Women
Suz says: About Submissive Women

Why Are Feminists Against the Male Pill

FDL Book Salon: The New Feminist Agenda

Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders
Is there anyone TED won't feature?

Food, Diet and Health:
Taco Salad w/ Avocado & Cilantro Dressing

Wake Up, Food Television Execs! So Says Chris Cosentino.

New Potential Dangers of Genetically Modified Foods Found


Anthony Bourdain on Vegans



Music:
Steep Canyon Rangers Bring the Bluegrass to Slim's on Friday, May 4th


First Listen: Hilary Hahn and Hauschka, 'Silfra'

Katie Melua: Back from the Brink


Misc:
New Fashion Wrinkle: Stylishly Hiding the Gun

Hot Shots Episode 8 Clip - Clint Upchurch 3-Gun Training


Blue Force Gear is Growing

Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Items of Interest, 1 May 2012

Gianna Jessen Abortion Survivor in Australia (full)


Balancing the Universal and the Particular in American History
by Bradley J. Birzer, TIC Co-editor

White House: Drone Strikes Ethical and Legal
U.S. Doesn't Need To Know A Person's Name to Kill Him in a Drone Strike

Socratic and Secular Irony
A review of A Case for Irony by Jonathan Lear.

Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, American Dystopia, Fiction or Reality?

America the Possible: A Manifesto, Part II
by James Gustave Speth

This is fine as far as it goes, but it is a leftist communitarian vision and incomplete, as a result. It is missing that aspect of the natural law which pertains to family and community formation, and everything ordered to it (such as sexual morality).

Rod Dreher, What Can I Know? Should I Know?

Former CIA Official Seeking to Confirm Efficacy of Torture Does The Opposite

Hrm... May Day March for Dignity and Resistance—Press Release

Open House at Tara Firma Farms, Saturday, May 5, 1-5 P.M.

Economics:
The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations


Relocalization:
Lights Out for the Territory by Charlotte Du Cann (EB)

Rob Hopkins: My TEDxExeter talk: ‘My town in Transition’


Erik Curren, Today, I’m running for city council

Catholic:
A Traditional Western Icon - From the Rheinau Psalter

Statement on China Commission Meeting
Laity "are called to participate with apostolic zeal in the evangelization of the Chinese people"
Al Mohler's Interview of Ross Douthat

Charity is not an emotion. Is the "ethics of care" dominated by compassion and emotion? And can compassion replace the order of charity? I find the study to be junk designed to make the less or non-religious look better than their "religious" peers.
Highly religious people are less motivated by compassion than are non-believers

EWTN interview on Fr. Joseph's Cause of Canonization
On Wednesday May 2, at 8 p.m. Eastern time, EWTN will broadcast a one-hour interview about Fr. Joseph Muzquiz, a priest of Opus Dei whose cause of canonization has begun in Boston.

Cistercian Spirituality and Emergence of the Coronation of the Virgin in the Late Middle Ages


Feminism:
Financial Return Of Medical Degree Negative For Women?

Kay Hymnowitz on Morning Joe, discussing the supposed "pay gap"


Diet and Health:
Quantum Nutrition Series: Is there a perfect diet?


What is Paleo?

MDA: Why Don't We Walk Anymore
Forgot the video from Mark Sisson's Primal Resource Guide:


Robb Wolf: Strength Training for BJJ – Episode 130 (mp3)

Fewer carbs short-term gets rid of liver fat

A healthy gut is the hidden key to weight loss

Robert Lustig: The Skinny on Obesity (Ep. 3): Hunger and Hormones- A Vicious Cycle


The Physical Challenge

History:
‘He contents the people wherever he goes’ Richard III: His Parliament and Government
The Participation of Women in the Anglo-Saxon World: Judith and The Wife’s Lament
Women’s Rights in Early England
From Other Worldly to Worldly: Materialism, Anomie, and the Decline of Catharism’s Charismatic Appeal
'The inordinate excess in apparel’: Sumptuary Legislation in Tudor England
In the Wake of the Treaty of Windsor: A Tale of Two Ladies

Rare Footage of Civil War Veterans Doing the Rebel Yell


Music:
Bill Monroe's Mandolin

11th Annual Independent Music Awards

A Spotlight On William Christie by Laura Osterlund


TV:
There's A New Sheriff In Town: 'Longmire'

NYC 22: How Long Before It’s Cancelled?

Park Min Young Reveals Photo from Set of "Dr. Jin"
Is the Japanese drama Jin (DramaWiki) based on the same source material? Seems like it. The Japanese drama was too fantastical, though subtitles would have helped my comprehension more; more thoughts on it here.


Misc:
Mel Gibson Calls Joe Eszterhas’ Anti-Semitic Accusations ‘Utter Fabrications’

Something with Tim Ferris: Japan: Fun in Tokyo & Kyoto

Legion Firearms LF-15d

Monday, March 28, 2011

Items of interest, 28 March 2011

A successful defense of the Puritans?  A City upon a Hill, by Mark A. Signorelli


More on Fukushima:
Chris Busby, Deconstructing Nuclear Experts

Mike Whitney, Is Fukushima About to Blow?

Dr. Helen Caldicott on the nuclear disaster in Japan (EB)
Alex Smith, Radio Ecoshock (mp3)

Libya:
Curtis Doebbler, Why the Attack on Libya is Illegal

PJB, How Killing Libyans Became a Moral Imperative and Obama Goes to War

Naturally, Daniel Larison has written much on the topic.

Other:
Unpacking for a disaster: What you need to survive the unexpected by Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch (EB)

Rob Hopkins, Film review: "The Economics of Happiness" (EB)

Commentary: Restrictions on world oil production by Robert L. Hirsch

Plastics now and forever! by Daniel Pargman, Life After Oil (EB)