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Saltine Crackers and College Admissions

In a piece recently published in the Wall Street Journal , Suzy Lee Weiss, a high-school senior, claims that colleges have been lying to her for years. She writes: Colleges tell you, “Just be yourself.” That is great advice, as long as yourself has nine extracurriculars, six leadership . . . . Continue Reading »

On the Square Today

George Weigel on reforming the Curia : The cast of mind in the Roman Curia must be changed, so that the entire Curia thinks of itself as its many good people now do: as servants of the New Evangelization, not as the twenty-first-century version of a papal court. That means that those curialists who . . . . Continue Reading »

Is Liberty University Going Liberal?

Some of you may remember  Kevin Roose . In 2007, as a student at Brown University, he went undercover for a semester at  Liberty University  and reflected on his experience in  The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University . Here is a . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 4.3.12

Mom’s Faith Wins Out Naomi Schaefer Riley, New York Times Curia Reform? Bank on It John L. Allen, Jr., National Catholic Reporter Interlocutions: Defining First Principles Steven Wedgeworth & Peter Escalante, Calvinist International The Few Witnesses to the Resurrection Bl. John Henry . . . . Continue Reading »

Republican Failures

Unlike baseball managers, writes Robert Patterson in the  Washington Examiner , Republican leaders — “the same old roster of political consultants, think-tank policy wonks and losing-candidate types” — don’t get fired for failure. One reason they’ve . . . . Continue Reading »

What I Mean By Acceptance

I posted a  review on the First Things website of Michael Voris’ “FBI: Homosexuality,”  and it’s raised a few hackles in the com-box. My basic thesis is the Voris’ production is not really an effort in evangelism or apologetics, so much as it is an expression . . . . Continue Reading »

Hook-Up Culture Does Not Help Women

Hanna Rosin  argued  in the Atlantic  last fall that the hook-up culture, far from harming women, is actually “an engine of female progress.” Some of the research she used to make that argument, however, does not support her thesis. The standard analysis of the hook-up . . . . Continue Reading »

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