Anna Sutherland

Sociologist Neil Gilbert argues that (in Sandra Tsing Loh’s Atlantic   paraphrase ) “financial need is not the force behind women’s shift in the past 50 years from work in the home to work in the market-place.” Rather, the driving force is “the desires of those . . . . Continue Reading »

Responding to my earlier post , Greg Forster writes : The number of people in the world who are capable of doing a good job running Apple or Exxon or Wal-Mart is extremely small; the consequences of those companies being poorly run would be catastrophic for millions of people; therefore the . . . . Continue Reading »

Photo by Anne Cassuto . . . But not in the usual sense of that term. As reported by  The World : In L’Hospitalet, near Barcelona, a priest let a bunch of graffiti artists go to town on his church. Specifically, on the dome ceiling above the main altar. You know, the space Michelangelo . . . . Continue Reading »

An exchange in Boston Review between Richard White and Gavin Jones on wealth during and since the Gilded Age reminded me of a question that arose during the Occupy Wall Street protests: To what extent has the decline of social stigmas contributed to the rise in economic inequality? Few would . . . . Continue Reading »

Information for the 2014 First Things junior fellowship program can be found here. As you may already know thanks to the ad on our homepage, we’re now accepting applications for the First Things junior fellowship program: Graduating college seniors and recent graduates are invited to apply . . . . Continue Reading »

In a newly released pastoral letter  to the Diocese of Marquette, Bishop Alexander Sample (now archbishop-designate of Portland) calls for implementation of Church teaching on the use of sacred music in the liturgy. Drawing on a century’s worth of papal and council documents, he points . . . . Continue Reading »

Fr. Robert Barron discusses Pope Benedict XVI’s possible successors on the Today show: Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy For more speculation on the papabili , see Michael Brendan Dougherty’s list at Business Insider . . . . . Continue Reading »

Friedrich Nietzsche by Edvard Munch Following up on Peter Blair’s post that we linked to yesterday , Sarah Ngu writes at Fare Forward  about the shortcomings of the typical Christian arguments against relativism. “Relativizing the relativizer” only works if the relativist . . . . Continue Reading »

An eighth-century depiction of the arrest of Christ from the Book of Kells . Church historian Philip Jenkins, who studied the Dark Ages (with his apologies for the term) as an undergraduate,  compares the spread of Christianity in that era to its spread in our own: The central fact of the . . . . Continue Reading »

Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila of Denver speaking last May . When the  Colorado Independent reported  late last month that a Catholic hospital in Colorado was arguing in a malpractice case that fetuses aren’t people, the incident was immediately (and rightly) denounced as . . . . Continue Reading »