The American Revolution began as an attempt to assert the Rights of Englishmen which had been won over centuries to stop exactly this kind of nonsense.
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The American Revolution began as an attempt to assert the Rights of Englishmen which had been won over centuries to stop exactly this kind of nonsense.
This is why the whole “No Kings” thing is not an exaggeration.
“Lex Luthor Buys The Daily Planet” seems like a worthwhile plot line for them to run.
Or Inchon which is not meant as a hopeful statement.
You’re talking brutal war in inhospitable territory against a motivated foe (in this case with less-sympathetic civilians) whereas Vietnam was basically working from a defensive position against an insurgency.
People who know that war through M*A*S*H should read Halberstam’s book about it.
People compare everything to Vietnam but what they’re opening up to here is another Korea but with U.S. as aggressor.
I’m not worried. The religious liberty crowd will surely be speaking up. After all, this is a much more direct attack on the Catholic faith than a birth control insurance coverage mandate, and if there’s one thing I know, it’s that these people are good faith actors.
“Men: don’t listen to women.” is always a message that has an eager audience, but not a good one.
Crisis taking interesting ads these days:
Ralph McInerny rolling in his grave.
Crisis taking interesting ads these days:
I’ve got a better solution:
Okay so we have a problem that needs to be solved in days for the global economy not to seize up. What if we gathered the largest tanker truck fleet in the world and sent them all barreling toward a tiny Omani fishing village that’s suddenly the biggest commercial port in the world? Could that work?
Yeah also Catholic men’s conferences (Crisis author is responding to a woman speaking at one) are rife with misogynist men who should in no way be platformed to tell people how to live.
“Men: don’t listen to women.” is always a message that has an eager audience, but not a good one.
Particularly if wrapped in an even-more appropriated version of Edith Stein.
I’m sorry but your Catholic anti-feminist women’s group is part of the problem.
Contrast this gaslighting BS published by Crisis today with Sam Adler-Bell’s NYMag piece about the misogyny of the Right:
every time a street in nyc becomes more pedestrian-friendly and more parking-hostile, all the local business guys who drive to the stores they own from their homes on long island, in jersey, the mcmansion-y parts of queens, all flip out wondering how people will get there. my man you dont live here!
No remakes: we are fully living in the Verhoeven Cinematic Universe at this point.
Excellent essay by Matthew McManus pitting Charles Taylor against the postliberals. Given how many postliberals like to cite Taylor as an ally, this deserves a wide reading.
www.illiberalism.org/charles-tayl...
This is about side streets. Avenues and main cross streets are metered.
When I lived in Chicago 20 years ago neighborhoods like Lincoln Park (comparable to UES or UWS) had paid permitted parking on side streets. This should not be controversial for quality of life.
It would make the city so much more functional for things like loading and moving where you do need a vehicle. Particularly if it came with a process for 15-minute zones and the like to facilitate such things for large buildings rather than having people block traffic or circle for parking.
This is not an approach you can run the two-minute offense on which Francis did his entire papacy just to get us to this point.
I am reluctant to overinterpret because I think this approach is precisely the opposite of clickbait, it’s playing the long game.
On topics that have previously been discussed as closed, he has suggested that time is needed for things to develop.
Cards on table, I think Leo has a view of tradition and the papacy similar to that expressed by James Alison, namely that it’s the Pope’s job to prevent schism by being the last one off the sinking ship of teachings that are not functioning.
Yesterday’s Synod report and comments from Leo last fall in which he mentioned a couple of controverted topics in terms of needing to develop, combined with making Newman a doctor…there are some subtle shifts going on.