What Did Americans Inherit from the Ancients?
by Russell Kirk
Homer and the Power of Men That Have Chests
Thomas Fleming, State Failure, Human Success
Thoughts on the Queen's Diamond Jubilee: Sixty Years a Rubber Stamp
Squat, Cough and Spread Your Cheeks! Is This Really Constitutional?
Fantasies of Liberty
A Stasi for America
Send In the Homeland Police Drones, Says Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell
Joel Salatin
Judge Napolitano Reacts to Texas Judge’s Decision to Jail Honor Student
The Homophile Agenda and the Attack on Free Speech
Daniel Larison, Some Strange Christian Nostalgia for Pre-Chrisitan Antiquity
Daniel Larison, American Exceptionalism, Foreign Policy and the Washington Rules
Andrew Bacevich, The Golden Age of Special Operations
Rod Dreher, We Should Be More Pagan and Wodehouse Cures Everything
John O'Callaghan, Pentecost and the Mandate (via MoJ)
The NG moms breastfeeding while in uniform
One Human Heart: Wordsworth’s Old Cumberland Beggar and the Sweetness of Being Human by Anthony Esolen
The Rhetoric of Alexander Hamilton by Forrest McDonald
The Household Gods of Freedom
by M. E. Bradford
A review: James Madison and the Making of America: The real story of the early American republic
Courtship, Etiquette, and the Adolescent Male
by Randall B. Smith
The Urgent Need for The Next Great Idea by Robert Nisbet
Investment and the Common Good, by Christopher Blum
Corporate Personhood and 14th Amendment Rights, by Thomas Storck
Subsidy or Subsidiarity, by Gerald J. Russello
Zeal: The Fourth Lively Virtue, by Anthony Esolen
Chinese Natural Law by Zac Alstin
How Modern Heresies Have Isolated Us and Left Us Unfulfilled
An Introduction to the Social Theories of the Middle Ages
JHK, Ponzi's End
Turn Out The Lights - The Largest U.S. Cities Are Becoming Cesspools Of Filth, Decay And Wretchedness
'Americans don't share global domination policies of their leaders'
Cardinal Wuerl:
EB: Fukushima Update, May 29
Christopher Dawson:
Christopher Dawson on Liberalism, Part I
by Brad Birzer, TIC co-editor
In Defense of Christopher Dawson
by Gerald J. Russello
Sustainability:
The Endangered Waters Beneath Our Feet
Five Questions for Carl Safina
Another documentary about overpopulation...
Relocalization:
BALLE Conference: The Heart and Soul of Local
Slow Money Northern California
6th Annual Building Green Communities Conference
Peak fiction excerpt — Buck: A Survivor of The Shut Down
Project Urban Food Forest
Why We Need to Put the Local Back into Local Enterprise Partnerships
Health Care Reform:
Misunderstanding Subsidiarity
By Peter Brown
Dan Bednarz, Goodbye, Bad Knowledge (EB)
Diet and Health:
Farm Fresh Less Expensive than Junk Food
Under Yellow Light: Mark Sisson
The Paleo Diet Moves From The Gym To The Doctor's Office
Episode 11 – Chris Masterjohn on cholesterol & heart disease (Part 1)
The Truth About Cholesterol With Chris Masterjohn (mp3)
How a Low-Carb Diet Affected My Athletic Performance
Misandry:
Hawaiian Libertarian: Diagnosis: ODD
Education:
David Mulroy, The War Against Grammar
The Beauty of a Christendom College Liberal Arts Education
Sales pitch...
The Most Honest Commencement Address You'll Never Hear
Christian:
Pageau Carvings
Evangelization -- One Family at a Time
Who is St Philip Neri according Benedict XVI
Vatican translates rules for assessing apparitions for first time
Music:
NYT obit on Doc Watson
Stetson and Cia Get Married
Misc:
Christina Cha on What Duvet Said Podcast
Top Chef tour - SF, June 16 and 17
The American West 150 Years Ago
How Do You Win a Gunfight
Debunked: 3 Reasons the AR Isn't Reliable
Saturday, June 02, 2012
The Ramen Girl
Pertinacious Papist on the film.
KK likes to go to ramen restaurants. Her favorite is Shin-Sen-Gumi. I don't taste their appeal.
Probably too late to win male viewers back to TV
Even though the genre is best suited to giving male viewers what they want, there is a pressure to make them more "relevant" and in accordance with contemporary "values" - e.g., feminism.
Will The Success Of ‘Hatfields & McCoys’ Spur A Wave Of Western-Themed Series?
Cowboys & Indians:
Take 2: 'Hell On Wheels'
By Joe Leydon
Repost of piece on Longmire.
Spaghetti Western Giveaway: 'The Grand Duel' And 'Keoma'
Will The Success Of ‘Hatfields & McCoys’ Spur A Wave Of Western-Themed Series?
Just two weeks ago, TV networks’ infatuation with period Westerns seemed to have waned. Of the slew of such projects put in development by the broadcast networks last season, only one, NBC’s The Frontier, had been picked up to pilot, and it didn’t make the cut to series. At the same time, TNT passed on its own period Western pilot, Tin Star.
Cowboys & Indians:
Take 2: 'Hell On Wheels'
By Joe Leydon
Repost of piece on Longmire.
Spaghetti Western Giveaway: 'The Grand Duel' And 'Keoma'
Richard Heinberg and Gar Alperovitz
EQUALITY & INEQUALITY in a shrinking economy--strategies and consequences
Political economist, activist and writer Gar Alperovitz and Post Carbon Institute Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg discuss 'Equality and Inequality in a Shrinking Economy--Strategies and Consequences'.
Gar Alperovitz, The Rise of the New Economies
Gus Speth Discusses America the Possible (mp3)
Something I've posted before -
VIDEO: CROSSOVER WITH RICHARD HEINBERG: END OF CHEAP ENERGY ERA
Political economist, activist and writer Gar Alperovitz and Post Carbon Institute Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg discuss 'Equality and Inequality in a Shrinking Economy--Strategies and Consequences'.
Gar Alperovitz, The Rise of the New Economies
Gus Speth Discusses America the Possible (mp3)
Something I've posted before -
VIDEO: CROSSOVER WITH RICHARD HEINBERG: END OF CHEAP ENERGY ERA
Welmer asks, "How Did Feminism Grow So Powerful?"
A comment:
A comment:
I totally agree. In Sweden we have a culture of having small country houses with few amenities. Watch the chattering egalitarian classes change into traditionalists for a few weeks when going on summer holiday. Men work in the garden and make repairs/construction, women cook, clean, wash and take care of the children. Egalitarian life is just “playing (alternative) house”, which possible by cheap energy to inter alia reduce house work and buy buying (outsorcing) services from traditionalist lower income people (men working in construction, repairs, gardening etc. and women cleaning and taking care of children).
Vandana Shiva vids
A Global Call: Eco Warriors, Arise!
Ahead of the Rio+20 Earth Summit, a call for a paradigm shift
by Vandana Shiva
anOther Story Of Progress
the whole film
Ahead of the Rio+20 Earth Summit, a call for a paradigm shift
by Vandana Shiva
anOther Story Of Progress
the whole film
Friday, June 01, 2012
Catholic ‘Americanism’
Mario, E. J., Nancy, Kathleen, and the return of the Americanist controversy.
By George Weigel
Was Fr. Isaac Hecker a good Yankee? If Americanism is inseparable from a certain American way of life, was it, perhaps, an adoption of the Yankee mythos and mentality and the adapting of Catholicism to it?
Paulist
Mario, E. J., Nancy, Kathleen, and the return of the Americanist controversy.
By George Weigel
Was Fr. Isaac Hecker a good Yankee? If Americanism is inseparable from a certain American way of life, was it, perhaps, an adoption of the Yankee mythos and mentality and the adapting of Catholicism to it?
Paulist
An intro to St. Josemaría Escrivá's teachings on lay spirituality
Holiness for Everyone
A recent book by Eric Sammons looks at the inheritance St. Josemaría left to the Church. As Scott Hahn says in the foreword: "I could not have written a book as useful as Eric’s, for he sees my family inheritance from a different perspective."
Opus Dei - Holiness for Everyone
The Practical Spirituality of St. Josemaría Escrivá
by Eric Sammons
Scott Hahn has his own book about his experiences with Opus Dei.
Worthy of a review; who wants to obtain a copy for me? Does it mention love of parents and family while neglecting how the ordo caritatis is an ordering principle for one's life? Does it give the theological foundation for Catholic "relocalization"? I wonder if the local Catholic bookstore might carry it, or the bookstore at the shrine.
Mr. Sammons was on The Catholics Next Door several days ago, but the show isn't archived, as far as I can tell.
Related:
author's website
The Thin Veil review (weekly giveaway)
Jennifer Fitz's review (Amazon)
Josemaria Escriva. Founder of Opus Dei -News
Peter Hitchens on Philip Larkin: They Tuck you Up, Your Mum and Dad
Saint Benedict of Nursia (ca. 480 - ca. 547)
A recent book by Eric Sammons looks at the inheritance St. Josemaría left to the Church. As Scott Hahn says in the foreword: "I could not have written a book as useful as Eric’s, for he sees my family inheritance from a different perspective."
Opus Dei - Holiness for Everyone
The Practical Spirituality of St. Josemaría Escrivá
by Eric Sammons
Scott Hahn has his own book about his experiences with Opus Dei.
Worthy of a review; who wants to obtain a copy for me? Does it mention love of parents and family while neglecting how the ordo caritatis is an ordering principle for one's life? Does it give the theological foundation for Catholic "relocalization"? I wonder if the local Catholic bookstore might carry it, or the bookstore at the shrine.
Mr. Sammons was on The Catholics Next Door several days ago, but the show isn't archived, as far as I can tell.
Related:
author's website
The Thin Veil review (weekly giveaway)
Jennifer Fitz's review (Amazon)
Josemaria Escriva. Founder of Opus Dei -News
Peter Hitchens on Philip Larkin: They Tuck you Up, Your Mum and Dad
Saint Benedict of Nursia (ca. 480 - ca. 547)
Burkean Social Mobility?
Why We Need a 'Burkean' Approach to Social Mobility By Dr Patricia Kaszynska
Is social mobility more important than communal stability? If it is enhanced while the mass state is preserved, what benefit is there to the community when none really exist? (See FPR discusssions on "meritocracy.")
Is social mobility more important than communal stability? If it is enhanced while the mass state is preserved, what benefit is there to the community when none really exist? (See FPR discusssions on "meritocracy.")
With social mobility in the UK remaining at the level it was for those born in 1970, and the inequality gap haemorrhaging the aspirations of those at the bottom, a radical rethinking of public policy is needed. In fact, one could go even further and suggest that in order to address the problems of intergenerational deprivation and institutional disadvantage that compounds the lack of opportunities for too many children and young people in the UK, a shift of perspective is needed. Whereas many of the past policy solutions designed to tackle these problems were focused on individuals, new set of measures has to operate on the level of groups and communities as well as individuals.
For instance, the Pupil Premium has been heralded as the central policy tool to address the problem of underachievement for underprivileged students. While it presents a valuable policy intervention to help students from poor backgrounds to get into better schools, it simply does not go far enough in addressing the root causes of disadvantage. Indeed, the effect of the Pupil Premium, as well as many other policies targeted at improving social mobility, set out to move a small number of individuals up the social ladder, but leave their communities behind. Rather than individuals, 'the little platoon we belong to in society' should become the level targetted by policy makers to answer the challenge of social mobility. In order to tackle the problem of intergenerational disadvantage we need a new set of policy measures and a new 'Burkean' approach.
Amerika.org: New Right, as the blog labels itself - truly it is so. Religion: a primer by Forest Johnson.
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Went to AS for lunch today as ah Fai was treating for a special occasion. While the food was top quality, I have to say that in some ways I take after my mother. I couldn't appreciate the distinction sufficiently to pay for it regularly. How difficult can it be to learn how to grill a steak well?
At a nearby table was a group of Japanese women - housewives? No wedding bands, but it's not really their tradition, and I don't think you are likely to find Japanese women of that age group single in SV, self-supporting, and able to take lunches at AS. Some of the derision heaped upon stay-at-home wives by certain distrungled men is understandable. Is there an equitable division of labor in such cases? Why shouldn't feminists be expected to support themselves and contribute 50% to the expenses of purchasing a house (and paying interest for home loan) or paying rent?
At a nearby table was a group of Japanese women - housewives? No wedding bands, but it's not really their tradition, and I don't think you are likely to find Japanese women of that age group single in SV, self-supporting, and able to take lunches at AS. Some of the derision heaped upon stay-at-home wives by certain distrungled men is understandable. Is there an equitable division of labor in such cases? Why shouldn't feminists be expected to support themselves and contribute 50% to the expenses of purchasing a house (and paying interest for home loan) or paying rent?
Review: Jeff Rubin on The End of Growth (EB)
Andrew McKay, Southern Limits
Random House Canada (is a US version on the way?)
From the summary provided by the review:
Globe and Mail review
Say so long to cheap oil, economist says
Related:
Surviving Progress (EB) (high/low)
Justin Ritchie & Seth Moser-Katz, The Extraenvironmentalist
Rethinking Economic Growth (EB)
Justin Ritchie & Seth Moser-Katz, The Extraenvironmentalist
Episode #40 // Corporate Influence (high/low)
Andrew McKay, Southern Limits
Random House Canada (is a US version on the way?)
From the summary provided by the review:
PopulationThe popular correlation between female education and decline in birthrates - instead of looking at education (which is advocated by feminists and industrialists alike), should we not look instead at the los of economic freedom as the cause? Women who are compelled into the labor force in a newly emerging "capitalist" system in order to survive may find that they cannot afford to have more than one or two children. We should also look on the negative pressure of urbanization up on reproduction.
•Japan is an opportunity to be studied as it has had a declining population for the last decade. It can be treated as a microcosm for where the rest of the world is heading.
•Because economic growth is directly linked to lower birth rates, in an age of zero growth it is essential to focus on female education to reduce birthrates.
•Hungry people have three choices: rebel, migrate or die. With lower energy use per capita migration is becoming increasingly difficult. The Arab Spring was in Rubin’s view Malthus come true. A huge population with very few economic options rebelled and overthrew a number of governments
Globe and Mail review
Say so long to cheap oil, economist says
Related:
Surviving Progress (EB) (high/low)
Justin Ritchie & Seth Moser-Katz, The Extraenvironmentalist
Rethinking Economic Growth (EB)
Justin Ritchie & Seth Moser-Katz, The Extraenvironmentalist
Episode #40 // Corporate Influence (high/low)
CNS: Religious liberty is focus in 'For Greater Glory'
Zenit: The Cristero War: the Story Behind the Cover Up
Historian Gives Evaluation of Film, Explains What Happened in 1920s Mexico
Duncan Stroik on Crystal Cathedral
The timing of this is wrong
One of the major criticisms of Catholic architecture during the past fifty years is that it has incorrectly adopted many of the forms of low-church Protestantism: the theater form, a fear of sacred images, asymmetrical layouts, vacuous sanctuaries, minimalist liturgical elements, prominently placed Jacuzzis for baptism, and the banishment of the Blessed Sacrament to the baptistry. The altar area becomes a stage with a focus on entertainment alongside praise bands that perform upbeat m sic.
In response, liturgists have argued that all of these things are simply the outgrowth if not the requirement of Vatican II. Are they finally admitting their agenda by purchasing a ready for TV mega-church complete with a jumbotron and three huge balconies for the "spectators"?
Reflecting the demographics of the diocese?
Or the failure of the diocese to produce vocations outside of ethnic parishes? Diocese of San Jose: Ordination to the Priesthood 2012
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