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Four Things Publishers Do Know–about the future of digital publishing. Most important (to me, as a writer who wants to sell books): Public literary discussion is dying. At least, if you read only print media. As newspaper book reviews get cut and boutique literary magazines struggle for survival on meagre Arts Council handouts, it has… Continue reading

Christianity · Rome

How much worse are things going to get in Rome? Rod Dreher discusses. I can tell you something from my own reporting years ago. Benedict was in as much denial as anybody else in Rome, until 2002, when his fax machine at his Vatican office began disgorging round the clock reports from American dioceses detailing… Continue reading

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HousecleaningBlogger is requiring all ftp-based blogs to port over to their new platform before May 1, so the medialog here will change addresses soon. I’ll post the new address and feed (to my three and a half regular readers) asap. UPDATE: March 16, 2010. Whew. That was easier than I expected. 

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John Wilkins takes Larry Moran and PZ Myers to the woodshed. I wrote: “As an accommodationist, I think that whether or not science and religion should be treated as compatible, in fact they are, or as compatible as any potentially competing set of beliefs may be, such as the belief that science is the only… Continue reading