Douglas Wilson’s Blog

• Shorter Than a Yard
  It was Sen. Eugene McCarthy who said that being a senator was a lot like being a football coach -- you had to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it was important. I have written about the dangers of ideology in politics (which addresses the how more than the what), and thought I needed to say one additional thing about that. By i […]

Credenda/Agenda Blog

• Wit Tempered By Candor
  Laura Mooneyham White. Jane Austen’s Anglicanism. Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2011. “She was thoroughly religious and devout,” wrote Rev. Henry Austen soon after the death of his beloved sister. Brother James, also an Anglican minister and a poet, added “Hers, Fancy quick, and clear good sense/And wit which never gave offence.” These encomiums are offered to a […]