Notes from a Small Place

David French wrote this piece (which removed any doubts we might have had about the partisanship of his mind) over at Patheos: Dear fed-up idealists, I used to be you.  I know that’s hard to believe.  After all, I’m pretty darn partisan.  I’m a religious liberties lawyer, a pro-life activist, the fo

Laura McKenna says the future isn’t entirely bleak for public universities: So, what’s the state of state colleges today? Are public colleges still taking care of their core constituency? Last week’s New York Times article on student loan debt showed that students from state colleges had lower debt

From William Cavanaugh’s Being Consumed: Two corollaries follow from this concept of voluntary exchange. The first is that freedom is defined negatively, that is, as freedom from the interference of others, especially from the state. Freedom is what exists spontaneously in the absence of coercion. T

Coates with some must-reading for understanding the complex relationship between American politics and racism: The problem with these formulations is that they are utterly ahistorical. There is no history of racism in this country that chalked “up only to race.” You can’t really talk about stereotyp

From a documentary he did about the United States: The marvellous machines we have made obey us, And couldn’t care less for the consequences: Nothing good or evil can happen to them. If we want it that way, they will lay waste the earth. Loot the land and leave behind them An irredeemable desolation

An excellent excerpt from Jamie Smith’s Desiring the Kingdom: My friend Brent Laytham, who teaches at a Christian college in Chicago, recounts an interesting experience that highlighted some of the tensions I’m suggesting between the Pledge [of Allegiance] and the [Apostle's] Creed. One day he was c

There are many, many things I love about the so-called “green revolution” but one of the main problems I see with it is the movement’s emphasis on alternative energies and other ways of maintaining our basic way of life without making major adjustments. IE You don’t need to stop driving your car, yo

Yes yes and yes to this cracker of a post from Peter Leithart: My Protestantism – better, reformed catholicity – is not fundamentally anti-.  It’s pro-, pro-church, pro-ecumenism, pro-unity, pro-One Body of the One Lord.  It’s not that I’m too anti-Catholic to be Catholic.  I’m too catholic to be Ca