In Medias Res

Let's get the obligatory review paragraph out of the way first. I agree with Melissa (who finished the book about 8 hours after I put o...

Just a few more hours until Melissa and I can pick our copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince , and we're pretty excited about i...

We got back from another one of our semi-regular pilgrimages to the Fox family home in Spokane, WA, last week. As usual, the vacation was a ...

Yes, the homeland beckons. Melissa and the girls and I will be leaving tomorrow for a two week stay in Washington state, culminating in a bi...

...and to think that just this morning, as I was walking to the post office to pick up my mail, I was thinking that, for better or worse, th...

Melissa and I just got back from watching Batman Begins . Oh man--what a fine and rousing adventure movie! Unless the idea of costumed bad g...

Okay, absolutely just one last Milbank-related post. Months ago, I said I was going to review Gar Alperovitz's wonderful and incisive bo...

Jim Faulconer's "experiment in blog discussion" regarding John Milbank's essay may not be everyone's cup of tea--it ...

Next up: John Milbank. A few weeks ago, Jim Faulconer (an old professor of mine, one of my co-bloggers at Times and Seasons , and a good fri...

First up: Chaoulli v. Quebec . A Canadian court case of health care would seem unlikely to attract much attention in the U.S., and of course...