Monthly Archives: August 2007

The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World

Posted on August 21, 2007 by Luke Ford

National Review Editor-At-Large John O. Sullivan speaks (audio) about his new book Tuesday night to the David Horowitz Freedom Center Book Club. Video of Michael Finch’s introduction. Video of Sullivan’s 35-minute speech. Video of John O’Sullivan taking questions for 20 … Continue reading →

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Cushy Confab’s Contrasting Coverage

Posted on August 21, 2007 by Luke Ford

The Forward reports Aug. 3: A strange thing happened in Utah this week: Some 40 leading Jewish academics, writers, rabbis and professionals descended on the mountains of Park City, where, among other things, they built teepees. Although the media wasn’t … Continue reading →

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Don’t Insult Anyone

Posted on August 21, 2007 by Luke Ford

Rabbi Gil Student blogs: The Mishnah (Avos 4:3) quotes Ben Azzai as saying: Do not insult any man and do not dismiss anything, for there is no man who does not have his day and there is no thing that … Continue reading →

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Why Are Novels By Women So Easy To Read?

Posted on August 21, 2007 by Luke Ford

Because they don’t use the difficult vocabulary more common to male writers.

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Is This The End Of English Literature?

Posted on August 21, 2007 by Luke Ford

A.N. Wilson writes: What do the following have in common: Oscar Wilde, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, T S Eliot, W B Yeats, Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Evelyn Waugh, Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis? The answer is, of … Continue reading →

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