You can’t tell too much from one interview, of course, but the interview Pope Francis gave an Italian Jesuit journal last month , and which was released last week, seems like a blockbuster. Everyone understands this. Progressive Catholics are elated. After long years in the wilderness, . . . . Continue Reading »
Cancer and Divine Transcendence Michael W. Hannon, Fare Forward The Fraying of Russia’s Church-State Alliance Nadieszda Kizenko, Foreign Affairs Revise Us Again Steve Thorngate, Christian Century An Anabaptist-Reformed Dialogue. Pt. II Richard Mouw & James K.A. Smith, Comment Illusions of . . . . Continue Reading »
This is an inappropriate way to begin a post, but as soon as I began writing what I had to say, the SOFTWARE COMPANY made me update and restart, which in the time it took to maintain a means of communication, I forgot whatever it was I thought I had important to say. Luckily my natural memory . . . . Continue Reading »
Makes the smart phone look dumb. LINKED FIXED. Thanks to John. . . . . Continue Reading »
There is this new sitcom called The Goldbergs that is set in the 1980s. The trailer doesn’t look all that funny. When I first heard that there was going to be a sitcom set in the 1980s, my first thought was that the producers would be kind of sloppy and treat the 80s as some kind of . . . . Continue Reading »
In his last comment on his own recent post on the most important of the Federalist Papers, Carl Scott asks that more attention be given to Federalist 38, which is often overlooked. I concur. And since I gave a Constitution Day lecture at Middlebury last week, and spent some time on Federalist 38, I . . . . Continue Reading »
Educational thoughts here . . . . . Continue Reading »
For those of you who like such things, an interesting and helpful list: A catalogue of the works that shape the Jewish mind in America today from The Tablet . The choices express “the collective inheritance of the Jewish people as read by Jews like us in . . . . Continue Reading »
After Mike Lee unveiled his pro-family, pro-middle-class tax plan, Republican Senator Jeff Sessions gave a speech focused on the struggles of the middle-class and workers who are struggling to find jobs. Sessions was one of the few members of Congress from either party to examine the Senate’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Fall is here, arguably the best time for listening to classical music . . . But “the season” of my Rock Songbook remains in the Spring of folk-rock, the 63’-67’ era of proto-hippie expectancy. The last post, if you missed it, gave you my favorite post-1960s folk-rock songs , the . . . . Continue Reading »
Subscribe
Latest Issue
Support First Things
