Blog Profile / The Daily Dish By Andrew Sullivan
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| Filed Under: | Politics | |
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| Posts / Week: | 266.5 | |
| Archived Since: | March 6, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
The Sanity Of The American People
CNN finds what Gallup does: no impact on the president’s approval ratings, even as Americans do take the current scandals seriously: According to the survey, which was conducted Friday and Saturday, 53% of Americans say they approve of the job the president is doing, with 45% saying they disapprove. The president’s approval rating was at […]
Noonan Just Loses It, Ctd
Among the many awful things about her latest column was this: The Journal’s Kim Strassel reported an Idaho businessman named Frank VanderSloot, who’d donated more than a million dollars to groups supporting Mitt Romney. He found himself last June, for the first time in 30 years, the target of I.R.S. auditors. His wife and his […]
Misguided Moralism
Mockingbird highlights this arresting passage about The Brothers Karamazov from Jaroslav Pelikan’s Fools for Christ: Dostoevsky’s study of human nature made him see a demonic element in man for which moralism could not account. Like few men before him, Dostoevsky learned to know the subtle means which the demonic employs in asserting itself with the […]
Quote For The Day
“Christ kept eating with people after He was dead. He still does. The Last Supper is not in the past, but in the present. Before Abraham was, I am means the time and mortality the man ran naked for and from are real, and are to be feared and loved; but that before time and […]
Face Of The Day
Kumi Yamashita‘s “Constellation – Mana no.2? is comprised of only three elements: a wooden panel painted white, more than 7,000 tiny galvanized nails and a single, unbroken black sewing thread. Rodrigo at designboom observes, “The highly intricate multidimensional textures of the compositions bring out a realistic and almost organic quality to the faces.” A close-up of […]
The Definition Of Futility
Kate Chisholm reviews two new books about Samuel Johnson, beginning her essay with this charming description of the idiosyncratic writer: There is a particular challenge in trying to pin down, quantify, assess the literary achievement of a dictionary-maker who has spent years searching for the elusive, chameleon-like meanings of even the most mundane of words. […]
Where Does Our Desire For Fairness Come From?
Alex Shaw discusses the question with Laurie Santos: Watch the whole video here and subscribe to The Mind Report here.
After The Apocalypse
Robert Macfarlane considers the way Cormac McCarthy’s The Road isn’t the usual novel about apocalyptic events: Until Cormac McCarthy’s novel…apocalypse had always seemed a baroque affair, lavish in its melodramas of asteroid strike, nuclear blast and tidal wave; populated by petrolheads in rabbit-skin loincloths and black leather dog-collars. Show More Summary
Mental Health Break
Jobson has details: Montreal-based visual artist Carine Khalife produced, directed, animated this music video for the 2011 track Blown Minded, off the album Shapeshifting by Young Galaxy. The entire clip is comprised of oil paint on glass photographed above from a camera. Khalife explains her process a bit more on her site.
Devout Sinners
James V. Schall reflects on sin and faith: We recognize that it is a Church of sinners. Just because one is a sinner, he is not therefore an unbeliever. Often, it is just the opposite. Because I sin, therefore, I believe. What other alternative is there? Where else can I find even a claim for […]
If Wes Anderson Wrote The Bible
Here’s one entry, “The Royal Tenenbaums or John 1,” from an amusing new Tumblr:
The Limits Of Empathy
Paul Bloom identifies them: [Jeremy] Rifkin and others have argued, plausibly, that moral progress involves expanding our concern from the family and the tribe to humanity as a whole. Yet it is impossible to empathize with seven billion strangers, or to feel toward someone you’ve never met the degree of concern you feel for a child, […]
The Theology Of Stephen Colbert
With graduation season upon us, David Zahl revisits Stephen Colbert’s 2011 commencement address at Northwestern University. An excerpt from the speech: After I graduated from here, I moved down to Chicago and did improv. Now there are very few rules about improvisation, but one of the things I was taught early on is that you […]
A Poem For Sunday
“2047 Grace Street” by Christian Wiman: But the world is more often refuge than evidence, comfort and covert for the flinching will, rather than the sharp particulate instants through which God’s being burns into ours. I say God and mean more than the bright abyss that opens in that word. I say world and mean […]
The Not Self-Assured Believer
Morgan Meis ponders the similarities between Kierkegaard and the New Atheists: Søren Kierkegaard was not an atheist. He was a Christian. All of his writings are either directly or indirectly about Christianity. He’s thus a natural opponent to Dawkins, Dennett, and Harris. Except for one thing. Kierkegaard detested Christianity as he found it. He considered […]
The View From Your Window
Salvador, Brazil, 12 pm
A Pilgrimmage On The Page
Angelo Alaimo O’Donnell leads her students through the work of four American Catholic writers: One of the joys of teaching is sharing powerful, life-changing books with my students. Each spring semester, I ritually invite the men and women in my American Catholic Studies Seminar to accompany me on this literary pilgrimage. From January to April, […]
Cinema From The Ruins
Kenneth R. Morefield compares Robert Rossellini’s Rome, Open City, which came out shortly after the end of WWII, to contemporary films. He praises Rossellini for framing “his characters’ struggles within a long historical perspective”:...Show More Summary
To Hug Is Human
Responding to Kate Notopoulos’s rant against hugging, Maria Bustillos comes to the gesture’s defense: The larger solitude to which each of us is ineluctably fated—Wallace’s “skull-sized kingdom“—can sometimes come to feel very like a prison. The difficulty of escape at such times is very, very great; there’s such a vast distance between one soul and another. It’s […]
The Unknown Frankenstein
Reviewing The Annotated Frankenstein, Michael Saler reveals the deeper meaning of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s famous creation: Wolfson and Levao show that the first edition of Frankenstein of 1818 was packaged as a philosophic novel. Published anonymously, and dedicated to William Godwin, it features more references to the Prometheus legend and Paradise Lost than to such […]