A lot of my friends love to hate golf–with all its bourgeois trappings and conservative leanings, its generally patrician vibe. And they sure can’t understand how someone could watch golf. I’m guilty on all counts, but won’t undertake any apologetics here. As a bit of testimony, let me just say this: golf is the only…
The Times today includes an article that might be overlooked: “Next on the Agenda for Washington: Fight Over Debt.” It notes that in the next couple of months, the United States will reach the congressionally-imposed limit on borrowing, capped at the staggering debt ceiling of $14.25 trillion (for the sake of argument, pretend it’s possible…
I have watched this clip way too many times. Be sure to hang in there until Taylor seamlessly weaves “Sweet Baby James” into the medley. Good stuff.
I’ve decided to upload some of the archive of book reviews I’ve done over the years, creating a collection on Scribd. I’ll hope to keep updating this as I have opportunity. Review of Peperzak, “The Quest for Meaning: Friends of Wisdom from Plato to Levinas”
If I could create a DVD to accompany Desiring the Kingdom, this would be one of the resources to accompany chapter 3: HT: Mark Roeda
Kierkegaard’s (or rather, Anti-Climacus’) Practice in Christianity—one of the little brothers in a corpus that includes Fear & Trembling, Sickness Unto Death, and Concluding Unscientific Postscript–is sort of an amalgam of Kierkegaardian themes. (And it still includes all those aspects of Kierkegaard that frustrate me to no end; I have a passionate love/hate relationship with…