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Rod Dreher

I was watching the Super Bowl with some co-generationalists, all of whom were eagerly awaiting The Who’s halftime show. In the end, we all thought it was hugely embarrassing for Townshend and Daltrey. Wheezing your way through a greatest-hits medley? Lord have mercy. It felt like Branson with laser beams, or like a Simpsons parody…

Child, child, I am just back from a Super Bowl party, and I cannot believe I’m typing the words: The New Orleans Saints are the champions of the world! I mean, damn! My dad phoned to say: “You tell those people you with: WHO DAT!?” Yeah! Oh, to be in New Orleans tonight. To be…

I keep telling you that you need to subscribe to Mars Hill Audio Journal, and sure enough, every time I listen to a new edition, I marvel at how terrific Ken Myers’ interviews are, and how nobody is doing anything quite like it. It’s an attempt to help Christians think intelligently about culture; it’s the…

Via the physics blog on MIT’s Technology Review site, here’s fascinating news from the world of quantum physics, about the potential for using quantum principles to teleport energy. Excerpt: Just how we might exploit the ability to teleport energy isn’t clear yet. Post your suggestions in the comments section if you have any. But the…

I am willing to open this forum up for liveblogging Snowmageddon. The first sprinkling of the white stuff has just begun to fall here in Philadelphia. It’s soft and beautiful — but that’s clearly what this Mephistophelian precipitation wants us to think. I have already put away two bowls of shrimp etouffee and a tall…

Writing in The Guardian, Mark Vernon comments on a recent Cambridge University lecture delivered by the major philosopher and Templeton Prize winner Charles Taylor, who spoke about religion and science. Taylor reportedly said that in the conventional understanding of faith and reason, reason was superior to faith because it was based on logic, and testable…

Boing Boing brings us news that the heartless communiss cretins running the Shanghai outpost of the police state are going after fashion-forward citizens who wear pajamas in public. An iron curtain descends! Meanwhile, in a blow for sartorial liberty, I went out this morning to buy bread at a bakery down the street wearing sweatpants…

Genius parody — but be warned, there’s one brief f-bomb, so it may be NSFW:

The government of Bavaria holds the copyright on Hitler’s “Mein Kampf,” and has exercised that right to prevent its publication for 70 years. But that copyright expires in 2015, and the Times reports there’s a controversy over whether the book should be published in contemporary Germany. Scholars want to publish a critical, annotated edition of…

Mark Vernon created a fun online quiz to help you figure yours out. Here’s mine, along with a Vernon online video bit about him: Your recommended philosophy-guru is ZENO OF CITIUM.Key fact: He taught in a stoa, the Athenian supermarket, and hence founded the school of philosophy called Stoicism.Must have: An interest in everyday life,…
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