Tag: Lame

How to Romanticize Your Decade-Plus of Lame Partying

Jay McInerney’s 1984 novel Bright Lights Big City is famous for being written in the second person, for romanticizing a certain time and place — New York City in the 1980s — and for using a certain phrase to describe cocaine. The story starts in a dance club where “...

The Lame Sophistry of Christian Apologetics

In the mood to eavesdrop on Christian apologists as they devise tactics for responding to trenchant criticisms from atheists, I stumbled on an article from Christendom College’s Catholic periodical, called “Principles,” which scratched the itch. The article is by Brand...