Trappist beer made in England. News indeed!

Well, this is good news.  A new Trappist beer on the market, and it is getting rave reviews.   Here is a short BBC video but the monastery’s own website is lovely, with plenty of detail: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-leicestershire-44615615/leicestershire-monks-brew-uk-s-first-trappist-beer http://www.mountsaintbernard.org/tynt-meadow-ale   My favourite Trappist beer is Orval and its beautiful glass was designed by Belgian architect, Henry…

Loyola luncheons on The Hobbit

*Loyola’s Committee on Catholic Social Thought hosts luncheons each semester on a theological/philosophical topic.  Through this lens we often explore literature and this autumn we are doing The Hobbit.  The illustration is by Alan Lee and my previous two posts talk about this wonderful artist. ~~~~~~~ Committee on Catholic Social Thought at Loyola University Maryland…

Lacan and why fashion archives are important

Here is a really good article on fashion educators explaining the significance of students learning the history of fashion: https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/education/why-fashion-cant-forget-its-references   Some of the teachers are Burkean — learning from the genius of the past — but many of them reason: you cannot make something new and thrive in fashion unless you know how not…

Myth and morals

V&R is a book about the ethics of the fashion industry.  As such, it is a sub-species of business ethics.  I am currently reading Bad Blood, the story of Elizabeth Holmes and her fraudulent blood testing company.  Fawned over by the media and celebrated as America’s only self-made female billionaire, Holmes, almost from the inception…