A Thinking Reed

"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed" – Blaise Pascal

Blogs and bloggers

  • Got to admit it’s getting better

    Marvin writes that he hasn’t been inspired to do much blogging lately, partly because things are so much better than they were a few years ago: Politically, everything’s coming up roses. Brick by brick, the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress are laying the foundation for a progressive future. I think a lot of liberal Read more

  • TAC expands its blog-presence

    The American Conservative has added two blogs to its already-stellar lineup: Daniel McCarthy’s “Tory Anarchist” and “PostRight.” That latter features a stable of young(ish) writers who “take a jaundiced view of the conventional left-right spectrum.” Talk of going “beyond left and right” is often just code for a vacuous and muddled “moderation” or “centrism,” but Read more

  • Animal-blogging elsewhere

    Some new blog finds dealing with, inter alia, animal issues: Theoria Critical Animal (Not sure how active that second one is, but there’s lots of interesting stuff there.) Read more

  • UE->TAC

    The estimable John Schwenkler has pulled up roots and moved his “Upturned Earth” blog (along with co-blogger J.L. Wall) over to The American Conservative‘s site. Congrats to John for the move and to the American Conservative for a smart choice. Read more

  • God is love: a workable theology

    A few days ago bls at The Topmost Apple posted a critique of this First Things article by Philip Turner on the “unworkable theology” of the Episcopal Church. In Turner’s view, liberal, mainline Protestantism prizes “inclusion” above all else and thus has reduced God to “love, pure and simple.” In response, bls pointed out that, Read more

  • Return of a blogger

    I’m happy to see that Andy of Sinning Boldly has returned to blogging after a lengthy hiatus. Right now is looks like his focus is a little more on the devotional/spiritual side of things. Welcome back, Andy! Read more

  • Pre-Christmas odds and ends

    The ATR household is off to visit family for the better part of the next week, so blogging will be light–well, even lighter than usual. Here’s a sampling of what I’ve been reading ’round the Web lately: Christopher has several posts on l’affaire Rick Warren that are, as usual, very much worth your time. (See Read more

  • Slow blogging?

    Kind of a cool idea, actually. I don’t necessarily think that more blogging is always better (in case you couldn’t tell), or that “blog in haste, repent at leisure” is necessarily wise. I find that my best posts (or at least the ones I like best) are the ones that I think about a bit Read more

  • Debitage

    Via Lynn, I discovered a previously unknown (to me) blog, Debitage, that has a lot of interesting posts on the environment, philosophy, politics, religion, and other topics. Of particular interest to me, there are several good posts on animal rights, for instance: here and here. Read more

  • A recommendation

    I keep meaning to link to the blog of Steven Waldman, the editor-in-chief of Beliefnet and author of a recent book on the religion of the Founders. Waldman offers thoughtful and even-handed commentary, usually focusing on the intersection of religion and politics. In other words: not like most blogs. So there–I’ve linked to it. Read more