Postcards from Palookaville

In a week where rumours abound that the price of high-end male grooming products, skinny jeans and heavy rimmed glasses has gone through the roof in Greenville, SC, of all places, it is good to hear from Mississippi Frank who hopes to escape from the clutches of the incorrigibly cool in the near...

In a week where rumours abound that the price of high-end male grooming products, skinny jeans and heavy rimmed glasses has gone through the roof in Greenville, SC, of all places, it is good to hear from Mississippi Frank who hopes to escape from the clutches of the incorrigibly cool in the near...

Two articles in this week's Spectator (still the world's greatest repository of great writing) are worth a look. First, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks states the obvious about the insipid nature of today's cool atheism . Second Rod Liddle (We are not worthy!) gives moderate Islam some classic Liddle...

Two articles in this week's Spectator (still the world's greatest repository of great writing) are worth a look. First, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks states the obvious about the insipid nature of today's cool atheism . Second Rod Liddle (We are not worthy!) gives moderate Islam some classic Liddle...

One of the most famous of J.M.W. Turner's paintings is The Fighting Temeraire . It portrays a magnificent British battleship being towed into harbor to be broken up. The juxtaposition of the huge sail-powered vessel being pulled to its fate by a small, steam-powered tugboat projects numerous...

One of the most famous of J.M.W. Turner's paintings is The Fighting Temeraire . It portrays a magnificent British battleship being towed into harbor to be broken up. The juxtaposition of the huge sail-powered vessel being pulled to its fate by a small, steam-powered tugboat projects numerous...

In a world where, no matter how big the issue, the panjandrums of the parachurch tell us we should all just agree to differ, T. David Gordon is a one man oasis of wisdom. Over at the online journal, Second Nature , he casts a cold eye on praise bands and on obnoxiously loud organs too. Here is a...

In a world where, no matter how big the issue, the panjandrums of the parachurch tell us we should all just agree to differ, T. David Gordon is a one man oasis of wisdom. Over at the online journal, Second Nature , he casts a cold eye on praise bands and on obnoxiously loud organs too. Here is a...

A couple of items have been brought to my attention. Over at First Thoughts , trans-Tiberian Ref21 reader, David Mills, offers some thoughts on J. G. Machen , inspired by D.G. Hart. Worth reading as are, unusually for a comment open blog, the comments -- no reference to Nazis or Hitler, and some...

A couple of items have been brought to my attention. Over at First Thoughts , trans-Tiberian Ref21 reader, David Mills, offers some thoughts on J. G. Machen , inspired by D.G. Hart. Worth reading as are, unusually for a comment open blog, the comments -- no reference to Nazis or Hitler, and some...