Ron Johnson, a Republican running for Feingold’s Senate seat in Wisconsin, says America is becoming Greece , collapsing in financial crisis. True? There is this fact to add to the mix. Over at super economics blogger Megan McArdle’s web page , a commenter complained, in another context, . . . . Continue Reading »
Britain Can Benefit from Benedict , declares George Weigel in the cover story of the latest issue of the English magazine Standpoint , a very helpful summation of Benedict’s thought on “the spiritual roots of Europe” (the title of his famous lecture to the Italian . . . . Continue Reading »
You know what’s wrong with us Christians? We’re too reasonable and ordered and not passionate enough. We could really learn a thing or two if, like fans of heavy metal music, we’d embrace the “liberative theology of darkness.” So says Rev Rachel Mann , the latest . . . . Continue Reading »
Between the Anglo-French declaration of war against Germany in September 1939 and the German invasion of France in May 1940, the world had eight months of “phony war” or Sitzkrieg (“sitting war”). Sitzkrieg continued on the Eastern front until June 1941, when Hitler at length . . . . Continue Reading »
Ann Althouse ducked into the library to escape a rainstorm the other day and picked up a copy of the Utne Reader —a magazine she says she loved thirty years ago and hasn’t read since. Her conclusion, reading it now? The ” Utne Reader is not a young man’s world—or a young . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the respondents to Not Your Smallest Lutheran Church , Russell Saltzman’s report on the recent creation of a new Lutheran body, objected to the conservatives leaving the mainline body to form another one. “[I]t’s not a good thing to be willing to splinter” over . . . . Continue Reading »
Our friends at The King’s College — the college famous for being located in the Empire State Building — have announced the fall schedule for their Distinguished Visitor Series. The visitors are interviewed by the college’s provost, Marvin Olasky, and answer questions from . . . . Continue Reading »
So here’s what I’ve written so far about Tocqueville for tomorrow’s panel at 8 (just in case you wont be there): Tocqueville called the effect of democracy on the heart individualism—by which he meant apathetic withdrawal from larger communities into a narrow circle of . . . . Continue Reading »
The peculiar Joe Carter (see You Don’t Know Me below) offers in today’s “On the Square” article a reflection on the hold information technology has on him and what he has done to try to break it. He writes in Unplugging the Info-Tech God that We consider it peculiar . . . . Continue Reading »
Today marks my eighteen-month anniversary working for First Things . For a year and a half I’ve had the dual pleasure of working with the finest people in journalism and getting to know some of best readers anywhere on the web. Yet while I’ve gotten to know many of you, I realize that . . . . Continue Reading »
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