The discovery that the writer of the 'Gay Girl in Damascus' blog was not in fact an actual gay girl in Damascus shocked the blogging community. The reason that liberals were okay with the blog for so long though was because 'Gay Girl' trumpeted everything they believe.

Democratic justice is a part of justice, but only a part.

A literary elegy formurdered-by-modernity romantic love.

For the last 50 years, the bourgeoisie has been quietly disappearing and depriving the art world of its target, yet there is one last redoubt where the bourgeoisie can be corralled into a corner and spat upon, and that is the opera.

While love and appreciation for wilderness is a good thing, it should not come at the expense of our own habitats.

The Da Vinci Code, book and movie, gloats about bringing down the Christian Church. But what does the author, Dan Brown, dream of to fill its place?

In art, beauty has to be won, but the work becomes harder as the sheer noise of desecration--amplified now by the Internet--drowns out the quiet voices murmuring in the heart of things.

What are we to say about a human condition in which a 30-foot wall of water takes away the lives of going past 150,000 human beings?