Now, though, an obvious question presents itself: Besides being a museum, what else will the cultural center do? In particular, what issue or set of issues will the team of scholars being assembled there devote its attention to? Here’s a modest suggestion. Let the academics and intellectuals who will hang their hats at the John
Like a Bad Dream Jerry, the oldest, turned away to hide the tears in his own eyes. He had driven us to our daddy's small cafe on the west end of town where we said goodbye. As we drove slowly through our small hometown for the last time, Daddy followed in his old, dark green
By the time he was twelve he was working on problems in geometry on his own, and he had invented a mechanical calculator before reaching his mid-20s. He would produce key works in the study of atmospheric pressure and vacuum, resulting in the complete outline of a system of hydrostatics, the science of how liquids
Kathryn Jean Lopez: You and Linda Waite write that we're living in a post-marriage culture. Is the tide turning back to marriage? Maggie Gallagher: I think there are many hopeful signs on the marriage front, including that it's now more than clear that we have the world's highest divorce rate and rate of family fragmentation.
Brothers Grimm as Told by Monty Python Like DreamWorks’ previous animated efforts — including the more traditionally animated The Road to El Dorado and The Prince of Egypt as well as the computer-rendered Antz — Shrek is more adult in content than mainstream American animation has traditionally been. (The time has come for parents to
Great Words Marrying Great Music Dylan's thing was to rasp his lyrics into a microphone to the accompaniment of an acoustic guitar. Dylan, as is sometimes his downfall on stage, was barely audible. And Buckley, an avowed “truth-seeker in the matter of the rock culture,” let him have it. In describing the spectacle of Dylan,
But here again, these efforts are largely going to be directed by or defined by the federal government, and, after decades of so-called federally-managed education, it is clear that Uncle Sam has screwed this up royally. Public education is too expensive, too inefficient, too influenced by those who want to see it preserved and is
Mary's Fiat Those pellucid lyrics by Paul McCartney, who, with John Lennon, composed the plaintive melody, stand out as peerless against the backdrop of the saccharine Marian hymnody of today’s Catholicism, where such chestnuts as Immaculate Mary, Your Praises We Sing still reign supreme. To find an equal to McCartney’s song, you have to go
Preserving a Catholic Identity As just about everyone also knows, although Ex Corde was not directed only to the Church in the United States, it plainly has special relevance for American Catholics: There are many more Catholic colleges and universities here than in any other country, and the Catholic identity of many of them has
Skewed Moral Compass As the film slouches toward its climax, Dr. Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) finds himself in the hands of Mason Verger (Gary Oldham), a revenge-crazed billionaire who proposes to feed him to a barnful of wild boars, inch by inch. To this messy end, Verger has his henchmen strap Lecter onto a frame that
It features a decent but initially unbelieving reporter, a grief-stricken husband whose wife has been Raptured while he and his daughter have been “left behind,” a corrupt Catholic leader who becomes the head of a one world religion, and a charming but thoroughly evil global dictator, the Antichrist. Published by Tyndale, it sells slowly at
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