Mark , I’m with you all the way on preserving the special protection for religion in law. But I don’t see any difficulty in acknowledging that you can have religion without God, and especially without a specifically theistic conception of God. Is Hinduism not a religion? Buddhism? There . . . . Continue Reading »
Patrick’s little essay is pretty important. That’s not because he called attention to anything in DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA that we postmodern conservatives didn’t already know about. And that’s not because he’s challenging his readers over there at THE AMERICAN . . . . Continue Reading »
Happy Thursday/Halloween/Reformation Day/All Hallow’s Eve! As junior fellow Sandra Laguerta would like to remind you, tomorrow is a holy day of obligation for Catholics ( get ready ): Tomorrow is the Solemnity of All Saints. It is also a Friday. #DeoGratias for Code 1251 of the Code of Canon . . . . Continue Reading »
A weekend-long International Art Forum on “Art and Beauty” is to be held this week, November 1-3, at the headquarters of the World Youth Alliance in New York City. Discussion will evolve around the questions: “What is beauty? What is the role of beauty in art? Should art always be . . . . Continue Reading »
Religion without God is the late Ronald Dworkin’s last work, published posthumously in September. It’s a short book; a publisher’s note explains that Dworkin planned to expand the work greatly before he fell ill. Still, the book is important. Not that it says anything . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, speaking of THE VELVET UNDERGROUND and THE VELVET REVOLUTION, we wonder, with Havel, whether political life can be about living in the truth. Pete is probably right about our two real alternatives when it comes to health care. That means, as Capretta explains, our demographic . . . . Continue Reading »
Tiny Houses in Alaska Atlas Obscura Augustine’s Linguistic Turn Jonathan McIntosh, The Flame Imperishable What the Poor Need Most Joe Carter, Acton Institute God Terms Fr. Robert Barron, RealClearReligion Zombies, Vampires, and Things That Come Back to Life Regina Sandler-Phillips, Tablet . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been a keen reader of the works of Terry Eagleton since discovering his various trumpet blasts against the monstrous regiment of postmodernism some twenty years or more ago. I have no sympathy for his Marxism but anyone who can make Lacan and Habermas comprehensible and amusing . . . . Continue Reading »
We need to channel our old zeal for tax cuts into reforming health care. . . . . Continue Reading »
No, A. Scott Berg, even if you have won a Pulitzer-Prize, even if you are a personality-and-event focused biographer and not an idea-focused one, you do not get a pass when you write an 800-page biography of Woodrow Wilson in the year 2013 to omit any reference whatsoever to the scholarship of . . . . Continue Reading »
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