Fr. Bill Dailey, CSC
@wrdcsc
Holy Cross Priest; Leep Family Rector, Graham Family Hall, University of Notre Dame; Thomas More Fellow, de Nicola Center for Ethics & Culture at ND.
“Human” and “human life” have biological and philosophical senses. The former is not complicated. The latter is. The fact that people disagree about the second does not license denying the first, that biological human life begins at conception. When *rights* begin is philosophy.
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Number of judicial opinions that cite "A Theory of Law": 9
Hey, @grok, who was the most famous person to visit my profile? It doesn't need to be a mutual, don't tag them, just say who it was.
Michael Caine on why he did Jaws 4: “I’ve never seen the film, but I have seen the house it built.. and it’s terrific.”
NEW: Bondi was blindsided & angered by Tulsi's Russiagate/Obama dump and scrambled to create "Strike Force" as a fast fix, per sources. The bigger story: Trump thinks Bondi/DOJ is moving too slowly on vengeance investigations. Me and @julianbarnes nytimes.com/2025/07/24/us/…
As Wallace Stevens informs us, poetry is a cure of the mind.
Learning poetry by heart will save your soul.
“Every act of the free intelligence, including the poetic intelligence, is an attempt to return to Eden, a world in the human form of a garden, where we may wander as we please but cannot lose our way.” —Northrop Frye, The Return of Eden
Possible new developments in how I pronounce “Rouen.”
Big Ten Media Days this year took place on an alternate planet. Planet Gaslight. The commissioner insists we'll all love 8-4 teams vying for CFP berths. The coaches are weirdly fixated on the SEC's schedules. And everyone talks exactly the same way. nytimes.com/athletic/65131…
Devastating and brutally credible indictment.
The University of Florida is the new leader in the study of Western and American civilization. So-called elite universities have abandoned the study of Western culture and politics over the last 25 years, and that betrayal has given other institutions the opportunity to create…
Today’s NYT article on Canada and tariffs is mostly vague as to negotiations but again weirdly boils down to “but Canadian protectionism is good.”
This is dishonest misrepresentation by @emptywheel. The “deal” Maxwell’s attorney is referring to is the Acosta deal. Her claim before the Supreme Court is that it protects her from the SDNY prosecution. DOJ has consistently said it does not, and the SG reiterated that.
Say, @tedfrank, what do you make of these latest developments. The statements by Maxwell's lawyer seem sketchy...
Again, the Tl;dr of the coverup Trump is trying to carry out is that he fired the prosecutor who would represent the interests of the victims, then sent his personal defense attorney to negotiate a cooperation deal to spring Ghislaine Maxwell from prison. emptywheel.net/2025/07/22/tru…
I think the idea that “The President is simultaneously an institution beyond the reach of criminal law and also a private person who can file $10 billion defamation suits when he dislikes a news article” is not very sensible.