In today’s On the Square , Robert L. Kehoe III reviews the new Joyce Carol Oates novel, The Accursed . Which means that, yes, on top of all the Dickens and the Civil War and the personal great books , we’re giving you yet another book to read: Oates brings Woodrow Wilson’s tenure . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s On the Square , Wesley J. Smith decides to take that lawsuit filed against Israel and Italy for the unlawful death of Christ a little more seriously than it might deserve: On one level, the claim is disturbingly reminiscent of the vicious “collective guilt” excuse cited . . . . Continue Reading »
This week, President Obama unveiled a new plan designed to make college more affordable . The plan will tie federal financial aid to college performance based a new rating system: President Obama is directing the Department of Education to develop and publish a new college ratings system that would . . . . Continue Reading »
Is Secularism Unprincipled? Ian Pollock, Berfrois A New Fair Copy of Wordsworth Christie Arno, Times Literary Supplement The Stupid Party Frank Furedi, Spiked In Defense of “Like” Paula Marantz Cohen, American Scholar A Trust for Gonzaga’s Catholic Identity Catherine Harmon, . . . . Continue Reading »
My colleagues and I on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom are working together across party lines to push for the full deployment of the tools provided by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to pressure regimes that are gross offenders against religious liberty to . . . . Continue Reading »
Word has it that San Diego Democrats have finally gathered up enough moral spine from among their thousands of officials and functionaries to pressure Bob Filner, Mayor of San Diego and Honorary Emperor-for-Life of Harassamentstan, into resigning from the first of those posts. But lest such a . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m glad so many of you enjoyed the post on Joan Baez . There’s plenty more to say about the folk music movement and Joan, but I’m using her to springboard forward into an analysis of 60s rock. The main point of the Baez post was that the folkies were able at their best to bring a . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s On the Square , some loser named B.D. McClay is writing about deconsecrated churches: A deconsecrated church is just a pile of stones, I guess, no different from any other. It’s not wrong to live or work or do business in that space, or sacrilegious; and yet, the space is too . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s On the Square , Pete Spiliakos returns to discuss immigration and the working class: As individual foreign-born low-skill workers attain US citizenship, gain access to the American welfare state, and build social networks, we should expect the labor markets of those particular . . . . Continue Reading »
If you’re following the discussion of “favorite Dickens books,” currently there is no clear winner. By my count we have a five-way tie between Barnaby Rudge, Bleak House, David Copperfield, The Pickwick Papers, and Tale of Two Cities . (I am subtracting any negative votes from the . . . . Continue Reading »
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