CWR: A Church drowning in sentimentalism by Dr. Samuel Gregg
Whenever I teach graduate seminars, I lay down one rule for the participants. While they’re free to say what they think, they cannot start any sentence with the words “I feel . . .” or [...]

The Imaginative Conservative: The Catholic Enlightenment: A Forgotten History by Bradley J. Birzer

The Catholic Enlightenment: The Forgotten History of a Global Movement by Ulrich L. Lehner

The book's description I find to be rather repulsive, if accurate -- why is this, then, being touted at a "conservative" website? Maybe the book is more nuanced than the publisher portrays it.

Who Invented the Horrible Idea of Women as Breeders? by Ulrich L. Lehner

Items of Interest, 18 April 2012

John Michael Greer, America: The Price of Supremacy

Did the Founders expect the Courts to Declare Laws Unconstitutional?

T. S. Eliot as Conservative Mentor by Roger Scruton

Our Allotted Time is the Passing of a Shadow: The Modernist Fallacy by Brennan Pursell

Peter Hitchens, Reflections on How to Punish Mass Murderers

Katniss Everdine, Localist

Mysterious Particle Found After Decades of Searching

How the Duggars Support 19 Kids and Live Debt-Free

César Chávez hailed as model for Catholics in public life
(Cesar Chavez: Longtime foe of illegal immigration, Cesar Chavez, Minuteman, The Rise and Fall of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers)

Senators Reject Iran Talks, Demand More Sanctions

Daniel Larison, Democratic Peace Theory Is False

Jason Peters, Devolution, Triviality, and Vocation

Rod Dreher, The Myth of Food Deserts

More on the power of makeup: Before and after makeup: Reddit user’s startling photo

Economics:
Young People Tire of Old Economic Models By ANDREW C. REVKIN
3-Part Series on The Most Promising Sector of Our Economy: Small Business

Peak Oil and Energy:
Two Energy Books of Interest
Are oil subsidies worth the price? by Mark Notaras and Brendan Barrett (EB)

Catholic:
The Precepts of the Church
Holy Resurrection Monastery: Eastern-rite monks celebrate Easter
Late Night at Holy Resurrection Monastery
Rorate Caeli: COMMUNIQUÉ OF THE PONTIFICAL COMMISSION "ECCLESIA DEI"
UPDATE: SSPX COMMUNIQUÉ

Orthodox:
риарх Кирилл совершил чин умовения ног

Patriarch Kyril, washing of the feet
The Priest Who Translates the Gospel Into Sign Language

Feminism:
Who Knew that Women Crave Dominant Men
Transvaginal Ultrasound: Nothing Like Being Raped
The female body, animal imagery, and authoritarian discourse in the Ancrene Riwle
Bringing home a porn star

History:
Social alienation and political subversion: Anti-Judaism in medieval Spanish music

Diet and Health:
LLVLC SPOTLIGHT: Swedish Physician And Kostdoktorn ('Diet Doctor') Blogger Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt
How I Lost 30 Pounds on Tim Ferriss's Slow Carb Diet

Music:
Man In Nursing Home Reacts To Hearing Music From His Era


Lindsey Stirling


Rebellion: Southern Music Break (Sons of Bill)

Chrissy Crowley: A Caper in Cuba Too!

Baroque Dance: "La Chaconne de Phaestons"


Gillian Welch's Spring Tour
Only one stop in CA, in San Diego. But she is performing in Phoenix and San Antonio.


Movies:
La Princesse de Montpensier: fantasy & reality

TV:
Rod Dreher, The ‘Who Watches Mad Men?’ Effect

Military:
Where This Brotherhood Began

Our friend MB posts a link to this piece from 2008: Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev: Liberal Christianity will not survive for a long time

It may not last long, but what will it take down with it?