Thomas Sowell tells it like it is on Benghazi-gate. But Professor Sowell is a conservative and a Republican. Where are the voices of our liberal and Democratic friends and fellow citizens? Why the lack of curiosity about critical questions of governmental responsibility and accountability? Why . . . . Continue Reading »
Joseph Knippenberg describes very well the likely scenario by which the Boy Scouts will move from a surrender on homosexuality to a surrender on atheism. This is just how institutions are conquered by their implacable foes; it always begins with a decision to be “accommodating” . . . . Continue Reading »
Real Clear Religion’ s Jeffrey Weiss thinks that, regardless of what happens with the Boy Scouts and gay scouts and leaders, the organization will still hold the line (unfortunately from his point of view, I suspect) against atheists and agnostics. Since I share Matthew Franck’s bleak . . . . Continue Reading »
Rise of the Policy Wonk Robot Bhaskar Sunkara, In These Times An Activity for Consenting Adults in Private Peter Berger, American Interest The Enduring Legacy of Cato Barry Strauss, City Journal Non-Reporting the March for Life Anthony Esolen, Crisis Don’t Go to Grad School Marc Eisner, . . . . Continue Reading »
For those of you in the New York area, the Thomistic Institute will be hosting a symposium on John Henry Newman next week. Newman and the University: A Symposium on Religion and University Education Catholic Center at NYU (Washington Square S. & Thompson St.) Monday, February 4, 2013 1:00 pm: . . . . Continue Reading »
“This hollowing out of marriage in mainstream America is among the most consequential social facts of our era,” declares A Call for a New Conversation on Marriage, just released by the Institute for American Values. “It’s contributing to the growth of inequality, harming . . . . Continue Reading »
Br. Raymund Snider, O.P. makes a Summa -style inquiry into whether the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas are “boring” —appropriately enough, given that yesterday was his feast day. Particularly charming is the argument from girth: Objection 1: It would seem that Thomas . . . . Continue Reading »
It may have been penicillin, not the Pill, that triggered the sexual revolution, a new study indicates . Hypothesizing that “a decrease in the cost of syphilis due to penicillin [which, in 1943, was found to treat syphilis effectively] spurred an increase in risky non-traditional . . . . Continue Reading »
Tom West – who, I want to make clear at the outset, can easily run circles around me in his knowledge of Locke’s writings – does well to remind us of the (now) conservative, pro-family conclusions that Locke draws from his very modern philosophical premises. And these . . . . Continue Reading »
Elizabeth Scalia wonders how we respond to “ so what? ” The repeated thesis was simply this: “so what?” Such a disarming question; the sort of question society has long-regarded as adolescent, arrogant, disdainful, and yes, more than a little snotty. It is a question that . . . . Continue Reading »
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