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John Reilly's Pilgrimage

Since I happened to be in New Jersey, I thought I would visit John Reilly's home, Jersey City, and attend Mass at Holy Rosary Church. John used to attend a Latin Mass there, but today I attended an Italian Mass. I thought perhaps having heard a Latin Mass

Linkfest 2017-06-16

Is Islam the rock on which the liberal order broke? Razib Khan's Brown Pundits post on whether liberalism broadly construed can stand against the intransigence of Islam. Think wine connoisseurship is nonsense? Blind-tasting data suggest otherwise It is easy to make fun of the expensive culture of wine

The Long View: God or Goddess?

Another book review written more than twenty years ago that couldn't be improved upon much by subsequent events. However, it does bring to mind Pope Francis' suggestion in May of 2016 that he would setup a commission to study women deacons in the early Church. Then, in

Linkfest 2017-05-05

* The Man Who Invented Identity Politics for the New Right Steve Sailer is getting more attention. This probably isn't good attention, but what can you do? * The quiet but substantial successes of Abenomics I still don't understand macroeconomics, but I am trying. * The siren song of

Last Call Book Review

Last Call Book Review

Last Call by Tim Powers Perennial 2003 $15.95; 535 pages ISBN 038072846X Last Call [Amazon link] is one of my all time favorite books. I can return to this book again and again, and find something different in it each time. According to LibraryThing, the last time I read

The Long View 2004-11-21: Shaken Faith

This is finally an interesting political post, a reminder that increased turnout in 2002 and 2004 helped elect Republican candidates, which runs counter to what both parties and most pollsters think then and now. Of course, we've also had twelve more years of demographic change, but much like

The Long View: Millennium: A History of the Last Thousand Years

Prior to 1500, the idea that Northwestern Europe and its disapora would come to dominate the world would have seemed pretty strange. One can make a case that this is a temporary state of affairs. All of the ancient seats of civilization were in other places, and had been for