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Burns Banquet

For your enjoyment, the following is a shortened version of this year’s Robert Burns Memorial, the keynote speech and toast at Saint Gregory’s annual Burns Supper. I lang hae thought, my youthfu’ friend, A something to have sent you, Tho’ it should serve nae ither end Than just a kind memento: But how the subject-theme […]

Conference Lecture on Jacques Maritain

Hey Guys! I’m going to a conference in South Bend this October, and thought y’all might like to see the topic I’m speaking on. The conference will be at Holy Cross College, hosted by the Society of Catholic Social Scientists. I’m giving a panel lecture called “Lessons from the Friendship of Jacques Maritain with Saul […]

Barthes on the WWE

I wanted to give some kind of justification for the guilty pleasure of watching WWE (almost “wee”), or at least for watching the film “The Wrestler,” but it seems that Roland Barthes already did so, even though he was writing way back in 1957. Barthes’s 13 pages (condensed quite a bit) follow. I must apologize […]

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