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Lovely Vintage Photos of Classic Stars With Their Children Vintage EverydayFebruary 11, 2020 A series of vintage photographs capture lovely moments between classic stars and their children from the 1930s to 1980s: Spencer Tracy and his young son John attended a recent polo match at the Midwick Country Club in Los Angeles, 1934. Photo by Bettmann. Marlene Dietrich and daughter ..

Jesus Is a Jew The ineffable becomes intelligible in Israel by David BrooksComment, January 30 th 2020 There are different lenses through which to see Jesus. I suppose there is a Florence Jesus—the pale, gentle, Caucasian Jesus of the Italian Renaissance paintings, with a scraggly blond beard and two fingers raised in blessing. There’s the Managua Jesus, the peasant revolut..

Calvinism’s Discontents Does liberalism have its roots in the illiberal upheavals of the English Reformation? By Keith Thomas The Nation, January 28, 2020 Calvin in Hell, Egbert van Heemskerck the Younger (c.1700–10). (Photo by Fine Art Images / Heritage Images / Getty Images) “To understand Liberalism, we need to understand early modern Calvinism.” This is the central ..

Habits for Ideological Times “The one who contends with beasts should take care not to become a beast in turn.” —Friedrich Nietzsche by Samuel KimbrielComment, January 16 th 2020 Appears in Winter 2020 There were certain fleeting moments in the late twentieth century in which one could almost think that the problem of ideological violence had come to an end. The trick onl..

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Forgiveness and Irony What makes the West strong Roger Scruton City Journal, Winter 2009 Wherever the Western vision of political order has gained a foothold, we find freedom of expression: not merely the freedom to disagree with others publicly about matters of faith and morality but also the freedom to satirize solemnity and to ridicule nonsense, including solemnity and nonse..

The Equality ConundrumWe all agree that inequality is bad. But what kind of equality is good?By Joshua Rothman The New Yorker January 13, 2020 Issue January 6, 2020 We can share an objection to inequality without sharing a conception of equality. Illustration by Monica Garwood Michael and Angela have just turned fifty-five. They know two people who have died in the past few ye..

Is There an Alternative?If you like your capitalism, you can keep it. By Matt MazewskiCommonweal, December 5, 2019 Photo by NASA on Unsplash Not too long after I started graduate school, a right-leaning relative who had heard that I studied economics asked me what my area of focus was going to be. When I mentioned political economy as one of my interests, he suddenly appeared c..

가방 하나 백무산 두 여인의 고향은 오스트리아 이십대 곱던 시절 소록도에 와서 칠순 할머니 되어 고향에 돌아갔다네 올 때 들고 온 건 가방 하나 갈 때 들고 간 건 그 가방 하나 자신이 한 일 새들에게도 나무에게도 왼손에게도 말하지 않고 더 늙으면 짐이 될까봐 환송하는 일로 성가시..

Charts & Graphs My First MemoryThe earliest recollections of great minds. Lapham's Quarterly. Winter, 2019 <![CDATA[/* ><!]]>*/ Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) “I lie bound and wish to stretch out my arms but cannot. I scream and cry, and my screams are disagreeable to myself, but I cannot stop. Someone—I do not remember who—bends over me…What remains on my memory..