Ok, I know it is Friday afternoon, and Halloween no less, but I wanted to respond to Ramesh Ponnuru’s note in the Corner. first let me state the following: – I think taxes are too high in Ohio. – I think spending is too high in Ohio government. – I agree philosophically with almost everything [...]
I wanted to follow up on the discussion of Philip Pullman and the His Dark Materials series below. In an article in The Weekly Standard entitled The Devil’s Party (no longer available online to my knowledge) Alan Jacobs discusses Pullman and his attempt to turn the Creation story on its head. Since it is no [...]
You can usually count on reporters at National Review to get the story right, or at least provide the context, but ocasionally they let their enthusiasm for conservatives get in the way of an accurate story. Ramesh Ponnuru’s comments today about events in Ohio are a good example. Let me note a couple of issues: [...]
Mark Butterworth is back and blogging atSunny Days in Heaven. If you have a lot of time on your hands and are of a philosophical bent, check out his ruminations on truth. Not everything is that deep, he also has links to silly songs and a comment on the NBA. Check it out.
Interesting Op-Ed in Today’s New York Times from Philip Pullman. Pullman is the author, most recently, of His Dark Materials Trilogy. He is something of the anti-C.S. Lewis. Despite being a writer of children’s fantasy, he is materialist and atheist of the strongest sort. It is this tension between realism and imagination that he contemplates [...]