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Barcelona. See it.

If you haven’t heard of director Whit Stillman yet, then you should remedy that.  Whit Stillman has 4 movies out: Damsels in Distress, The Last Days of Disco, Metropolitan, and Barcelona.  I recommend them all, but if you had to see any one of them and not the others, then I would encourage you to see […]

You didn’t forget about Belloc did you?

Here’s a quick quip from Belloc that I recently enjoyed. Explicit Materialism, compared with the other philosophies meeting in man’s Palace of Debate, is like a jolly little self-satisfied dwarf who should be perpetually trying to push his way into the stately ceremonies of a Senate, and as perpetually getting turned out by the officials […]

RIP Ralph McInerny

Ralph McInerny (1929-2010) Rest In Peace First Things Obit. https://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2010/01/ralph-mcinerny-1929-2010 Definitely worth the read.

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