Part 1: Eating the Fresh Catch Part 2: Fighting Back Sometimes a writer doesn’t go looking for his next project. It comes looking for him. This is what happened to Rod Dreher, a writer at The American Conservative. He received an anonymous phone call from a doctor whose news-watching parents, immigrants from Romania, followed the story of a pizza parlor in Indiana facing [...]
In Part 1, we described the problem of post-modernism's advance. Today, we'll talk about pushing back. 1. Fix Your Mindset First, you need to square your shoulders and adopt the right attitude, much like what Victor Davis Hanson described on a recent television appearance. Recalling the deeply divided country of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency, he says our president must respect sacrifices made generations ago [...]
My father was a smart fisherman. He never had the spare time to stand in a stream, outfitted in waders, tossing his line over the water. But he made friends with the fellows who did. Every so often, they came around, offering us some fresh-caught trout. Out came Mom’s skillet, the oil, the cornmeal. And we had a tasty supper. This was fish with [...]
What a couple of weeks it has been! On the one hand, we have a few littered, shaken-up and burnt-out cities. On the other, I've heard people I know and respect demand that we say the right words or else. It's one thing to express an idea -- black lives matter, which means people are hurting, so let's help them. It's quite another to [...]
Hey folks, I just lost the draft of my post on Alex Epstein’s The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels. So let's just go with a few quotes: This book is about morality, about right and wrong. To me, the question of what to do about fossil fuels and any other moral issue comes down to: What will promote human life? What will promote human [...]
Happy Easter to you! Every year, when the grass greens up, when the trees bud out, when the weather softens, it’s hard to miss the larger meaning of life renewing all around. This year, the symbolism of renewed life is bolstered by a book we covered here a few weeks ago. It was so illuminating, so perspective-changing, it was as if I could suddenly [...]
You’ve met author Jennifer Roback Morse in these pages before. Now she’s back with her newest book, The Sexual State: How Elite Ideologies Are Destroying Lives and Why the Catholic Church Was Right All Along. In its pages, she makes the case that the Sexual Revolution wasn’t as organic as some teenage no-parents party. Laws were passed, grants were granted, court cases were filed. Case [...]
It’s a wonder I’m still a praying, church-going woman. Practically every novel I’ve read in the last five years features a main character who proclaims that they “don’t believe in all that stuff.” I see a particular pride, reading between the lines, and I see it coming straight from the author, who utters this line as he/she were as brave and original as the [...]
