Unca Darrell

JANUARY 28, 2018 / The Apostle Paul on . . .

. . . wisdom and foolishness.

    20 WHERE IS the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish . . . 

AUGUST 1, 2017 / If you and I could write this well . . .

. . . we would: 

SEPTEMBER 22 / I've put it off and put it off, but . . .

. . . today it must be done. So let's perform our usual Saturday ablutions -- giving to charity, contributing to Romney -- then hear a long-overdue disquisition by Unca D, his own self, on one of America's most-important cultural treasures: . . .

AUGUST 19 / Walter Russell Mead on the specter of national bankruptcy

THE INVISIBLE hand has been writing on our wall of late, and the message is scaring the markets. [There] is real trouble afoot, and the world's political and economic leaders are terrifyingly . . .

 

JUNE 29 / Essential reading on the debt

LAWRENCE B. LINDSEY gives three reasons the deficit is worse than the Obama administration admits. The first is that . . .

 

June 28 / Without comment: ". . . while the Houston Chronicle slightly favors Republicans."

ACCUSATIONS OF POLITICAL BIAS in the media are often made by members of both political parties, yet . . . 

JUNE 23 / The great and inescapable fact of our time

[IT] SEEMS increasingly clear that the Obama presidency has . . . 

MARCH 28 / Assigned readings on marriage

THERE WILL be a test.

WHAT MAKES pre-adulthood something new is its radical reversal of the sexual hierarchy. Among pre-adults, women are . . . 

DECEMBER 8 / Worshiping Gaia

FOR SOME individuals and societies, the role of religion seems increasingly to be filled by environmentalism. It has become "the religion of choice for urban . . .  

NOVEMBER 22 / Lilla / The Boomer revolution

WHAT THESE '68ers originally demanded was that America fulfill its own democratic promise, not that it take up a new revolutionary mission. The temple of the American democratic ideal had to be cleansed. A ritual cleansing began with the civil rights movement and resistance to the war, and was finished . . .