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Seven Quick Takes—01/24/14
— 1 — This is what happens when I try and make sensible economic arguments to myself: “Hmm, what with this polar vortex nonsense—and my neighborhood’s crappy sidewalk maintenance—I’m kidding myself...
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Melville on Mending
Heaven have mercy on us all—Presbyterians and Pagans alike—for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending. -Herman Melville, Moby Dick
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7 Quick Takes—02/07/14—Philosophical Cats Edition!
— 1 — As I violated my 2-post-a-week resolution last week, I figured I should make amends in a manner sensitive to the cultural mores of the internet. Internet, I present to you by way of apology this...
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On Taking Sex Seriously
For a long time, the argument about the supposedly sexually repressive nature of Catholicism went like this: Sex is a powerful, beautiful, and deeply important part of human life; to ask us to deny our...
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Coming soon…
I’m presently out of town attending The Berkeley Institute‘s graduate conference “What is good work?” Out of general principle/miserliness, I refuse to pay for hotel Wi-Fi. But blogging from my phone...
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Committed to the Details
So, as mentioned in my previous post, I had the pleasure of spending last weekend at a graduate conference put on by the Berkeley Institute. The conversations and content were quite rich, and so I...
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Musica De Profundis
This has been making the rounds in my Facebook circle for awhile, thanks to the large number of medievalists I happen to know. I share it because, well, who doesn’t want to hear “a 500-year-old song...
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Pray for Uganda
As you may already be aware, Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill, which makes even “touching another person with the intention of committing the act of homosexuality” an offense punishable by life in...
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Of Sheep and Sadness
I posted last year about an extended visit to Mt. Saviour Monastery—but there’s one story I left out of that narrative. The monastery is also a functioning sheep farm and so I spent a lot of my days...
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Unplugging and its Discontents
The New Yorker website just published a provocative piece called “The Pointlessness of Unplugging.” I’m ambivalent about some of the author’s arguments, though I’m totally in agreement with its final...
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