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Nov 16, 2024 | 
merionwest.com | Erich Prince
“Charles Krauthammer used to pride himself on not going to cocktail parties, instead preferring to be at home with his wife quietly reading, writing, doing whatever. And he was probably better for it.”t a book launch party I attended with a handful of Merion West editors and writers not long ago, they were all there: The people I had followed on Twitter for the better part of a decade, writers whose columns I had forwarded to friends since college, familiar faces from the podcast circuit.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
merionwest.com | Erich Prince
“Jackson C. Frank didn’t find what he was looking for in his own life, it doesn’t seem, though it may have become increasingly out of his control. He would be diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, which hardly partnered well with his pre-existing depression.”Try another city baby another townWherever I have goneWherever I’ve been and goneWherever I have gone the blues come followin’ down remember the first time I heard it. It was with a friend of mine from school.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
merionwest.com | Erich Prince
“And, relatedly, one also begins to wonder if there are certain ways of phrasing the key points that have already been formulated, capture them perfectly, and, thus, cannot really be improved upon.”n a forthcoming review of Rob Henderson’s recent book Troubled, I invoked a passage from C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity. It reads: “Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
merionwest.com | Erich Prince
“It is just Springsteen and his sparse vocals seeming to sing out into the empty expanse of the American West and its sprawling landscapes where hope—at least until the final track—is nowhere to be found. One can feel it was recorded in winter.”ruce Springsteen turns 75 today. It is always jolting to hear of someone one associates with being young having lived now for three quarters of a century, first Paul McCartney, then Mick Jagger, and now Bruce Springsteen.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
merionwest.com | Erich Prince
“We never relied only on advertising. I think one of the keys to our success is we had a very good and robust mixed revenue model. And that has [helped] us over a long period of time.”arlier this summer, Newsmax CEO and founder Christopher Ruddy announced plans for an initial public offering, which aims to take place this year or in early 2025.
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Aug 24, 2024 | 
merionwest.com | Erich Prince
“The change with After Virtue, however, is that in an important sense [MacIntyre] turns against modernity as a whole. He argues that the move to modernity involves the destruction of morality—that in modernity we no longer know what we’re talking about when we deploy moral language.”an Addison, a philosophy professor living in New York, joined Merion West editor-in-chief Erich J.
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
merionwest.com | Erich Prince
“But with that said, what has always bothered me about the story told in ‘Galveston’ is that there seems to be so much of life left unruminated over, a fact remediated only slightly by the mention of the seascape at the end of the song (and “the sea waves crashing” in the Campbell version).” “She was twenty-one/When I left Galveston” lthough initially performed the year before by another artist, Don Ho, it was in January of 1969 that Glen Campbell released the single “Galveston,” which would...
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Jun 2, 2024 | 
merionwest.com | Erich Prince
“For me, though, there is one Prine song I find the most philosophical, though many of his songs do indeed have that bent…The song is ‘Fish and Whistle,’ the first track on his 1978 album Bruised Orange…”ohn Prine was one of the first prominent performing artists to die of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). I recall hoping, praying that somehow he would make it through, and he did hang on for a while, but he was at that age I suppose where the virus, particularly in the early days, hit one the hardest.
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May 19, 2024 | 
merionwest.com | Erich Prince
“Henry David Thoreau, writing in 1854, remarked: ‘I never received more than one or two letters in my life…that were worth the postage.’ What would he make of the modern email inbox?” he central problem of the modern age (for many of us fortunate enough to live comfortably in the developed West), it has been observed, is one of abundance: too many films to watch; books to read; events to attend; budget flights to catch; tweets to scroll through, text messages to open; and, for our purposes...
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May 17, 2024 | 
merionwest.com | Erich Prince
“Obviously elections are political in terms of who wins and loses, but the process should not be political.” n May 3rd, former Georgia Congressman Jody Hice joined Merion West editor-in-chief Erich Prince to discuss his new book Sacred Trust, Election Integrity and the Will of the People. The following is a transcript of their conversation. Today, I’m joined by former Georgia Congressman Jody Hice, who is currently a senior vice president at the Family Research Council.
