Volume > Issue > New Oxford Notes: January 2003

New Oxford Notes: January 2003

Has the Permanent Revolution Pooped Out In the People's Republic?

Starbucks produced a self-congratulatory pamphlet lauding their efforts to help coffee farmers and conserve the environment. Every revolutionary idea gets co-opted in the end.

READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.
Oh, to Be a Victim!

Victim status is highly coveted in our effete culture.

READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.
Can We Please Change the Subject!

Forget the scandals? (Uh, not so fast, pal!)

READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.
When the "Shorter Form" Is The Politically Correct Form

Scripture is censored in the Parable of the Talents, where the "wicked, lazy servant" is sent "where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth."

READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.
Evangelize! (But Why?)

Sister Antonio says to share our faith we won't actually have to say anything controversial.

READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.

You May Also Enjoy

What If #AhmedIsaFake?

"Clock boy" Ahmed Mohamed may have a promising career ahead of him, not as an engineer or an inventor but as a social agitator and propagandist.

Now They Tell You! (Part II)

Now that Bush cannot run again, we hear a different tune from the Neo-cons.

An Answer to Jacques Servais

We are told Speyr's books are for "meditation and adoration," not for the "use" of the scholarly. This is a false dichotomy. Speyr is not canonized, after all.