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The American Conservative, October 2009
The cover may suggest an alarmist piece about Pakistan. The article actually in the issue, though, is precisely the opposite. Granting that Pakistan is an important country that has very serious...
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The American Conservative, November 2009
In this issue, former FBI employee Sibel Edmonds names some prominent US officials whom she believes to have accepted bribes from foreign governments. Eve Tushnet visits a Washington, DC locale...
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Sexuality, Women, and the Movies
Eve Tushnet promotes her review of some recent film release with a mock headline declaring it “A terrific date movie! Unless you’re heterosexual or something.” I love that “or something.” I’m not...
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What is an “ex-gay”?
When a friend asked me shortly after my religious conversion what an “ex-gay” was, I replied, “Oh, that’s what evangelicals call their gay people.” [Disputed Mutability, via Eve Tushnet]
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The American Conservative, December 2009
Florence King Fifteen writers list “The Best Books You Haven’t Read“; I don’t know about you, but the only one on any of the lists that I had read was Sam Tanenhaus’ pick, The Managerial Revolution by...
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The American Conservative, April 2010
Pluto, no other label needed My favorite read from the antiwar Right has undergone quite a few changes since it began in 2002. Founding editors Pat Buchanan and Taki Theodoracopulos are long gone from...
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In the flesh?
Most Sundays, Mrs Acilius and I can be found in a Quaker meeting down the street from our home. She is a member of that meeting and a convinced adherent of the brand of Christianity associated with...
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“Among the loneliest creatures in the universe”
The other day, Eve Tushnet posted a link to this post by Mark P. Shea. Shea is responding to remarks by Watergate figure Charles Colson, who was in turn discussing the question of whether puppets Bert...
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The American Conservative, March 2012
The table of contents of the March issue of The American Conservative seems to have a problem. I haven’t seen the print edition yet, but the page numbers in the online edition’s table of contents...
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Wednesday links
Zach Weiner explains very succinctly why it’s so hard to be a pacifist, Eve Tushnet reads about single mothers, John Wilkins doesn’t believe politicians have mandates, some guy named “Zippy Catholic”...
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Indiana becomes the center of the universe, for a little while
This is where Indiana is, in case you’ve been wondering. Last week the state of Indiana made the national news by passing a law whose sponsors named it “The Religious Freedom Restoration Act.”...
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