Last week I posted my Capital Commentary piece, Winner Take All or Splitting the Difference: Lessons from Switzerland . Now someone has brought this article to my attention: Who Needs a President? , by Bill Kaufmann. If only the New Jersey Plan had won out over two centuries ago: No matter which . . . . Continue Reading »
As mentioned back in October , international debating forum Intelligence Squared invited John Julius Norwich, Geoffrey Robertson, Ronald Rychlak, and First Things regular William Doino to speak on the contentious motion, ” Pius XII did too little to save the Jews from the Holocaust . . . . Continue Reading »
at Reason: When it comes to Americans’ understanding of sexual privacy and public sexual expression, most of us are effectively members of the American Civil Liberties Union. This is so even for people who carry no card, pay no dues, and—if such a thing were possible—have never even . . . . Continue Reading »
William Doino Jr. on Rupert Shortt and a church besieged : As anxious as many Christians are about religious freedom in America, nothing we’ve experienced—and God willing, never will—comes close to the brutal persecution of Christians abroad. The stunning extent of this . . . . Continue Reading »
This week’s New York Review of Books features a translation of one of Leszek Kolakowski’s essays (to be part of a collection forthcoming in 2013). Kolakowski, who passed away in 2009, was an iconic Polish anticommunist intellectual, and over the course of his life “the author . . . . Continue Reading »
After its upcoming debut was announced, rumors abounded as to which Twitter handle the Vatican would use for personal tweets from Pope Benedict XVI. Rocco Palmo suggested it might be @BenedictusPPXVI . The real address, which will be updated beginning on December 12, is @Pontifex —-an . . . . Continue Reading »
About a year before he died, Richard John Neuhaus did a small series of videos on vocational discernment and marriage. They present him at his finest and capture well the faith that fueled him in his life, priesthood, and public work, particularly a deep and abiding hope in God. Hope, he liked to . . . . Continue Reading »
In Searching for Relevance, Church of England Is Losing It Tim Stanley, The Telegraph On the Other Side of the Confessional Fr. Mike Schmitz, Lifeteen Media Misleads on Reasons for Abortion Drop Michael J. New, The Corner The Monster of Monticello Paul Finkelman, New York Times Culture Begins on a . . . . Continue Reading »
Matthew Schmitz has a terrific post which discusses Mike Murphy’s suicide-for-the-Republican Party idea that the Republicans should abandon social conservatives and focus on hard headed economic conservatism. Murphy’s post has been beaten up by better writers than me so I’ll focus . . . . Continue Reading »
So I’ve gotten a good number of emails and FACEBOOK messages on my FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS post. There are some LIBERAL ones that find it offensive. I’m okay with that. There are some TV CRITICAL ONES that say I overrate the show. The teenagers on FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHT are too precious and . . . . Continue Reading »
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