Katherine Infantine

“The stunning news that the United States may be the most surveilled society in human history has opened a fierce debate on security, privacy, and accountability,” says Timothy George in today’s column . “It has also brought about an amazing and unpredicted political . . . . Continue Reading »

“It could have been worse,” says Matthew Franck in today’s column . “That is what the defenders of conjugal marriage are saying after the brace of Supreme Court rulings issued yesterday on challenges to that truth that is as old as the human race, that marriage is . . . . Continue Reading »

“For all their differences, the missing white voters and disappointed Democratic-voting nonwhites have one thing in common,” says Pete Spiliakos in today’s column , “Neither sees a reason to vote Republican that is relevant to their lives. The Republicans could do better . . . . Continue Reading »

“2013 marks the centenary of the birth of one of the greatest theologians of the twentieth century, Thomas F. Torrance” who believed that “modern western theology . . . has been trapped in an obsolete, dualist mindset that detaches Jesus Christ from God, worship and mission from . . . . Continue Reading »

“The ‘Edict of Milan,’ whose milleseptuacentennial (so to speak) is being marked this year,” says George Wiegel in today’s column , “wasn’t an edict and wasn’t issued at Milan. Still, its enormous impact on the history of the Church and the West is well . . . . Continue Reading »

Macklemore’s pro-same-sex-marriage rap video is “quite masterful, actually . . . ” says R. J. Snell in today’s column , “beautifully produced, skillfully managed, and positioned within a moving narrative of birth, death, and love; it is, I suspect, devastatingly . . . . Continue Reading »

“In the opening line of James Joyce’s  Ulysses , stately, plump Buck Mulligan bears ‘a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed,’” says Melinda Selmys in today’s column , ”Holding the bowl aloft he declares, ’ Introibo ad . . . . Continue Reading »

The Irish public fails to see that Prime Minister Enda Kenny’s new bill to “clarify” the abortion statute in Ireland, says John Aroutiounian in today’s column , “is only the first front in a long-planned, well-coordinated storm.” Never mind that the . . . . Continue Reading »

Fitzgerald scholar Sarah Churchwell  remarked : “‘Thank You for the Light’ suggests that Fitzgerald’s faith—in life, in art, even in Catholicism—may have lapsed, but it never expired.” William Doino Jr. writes in today’s column : Visually . . . . Continue Reading »

The Academy of Arts and Sciences published a  report  and accompanying video offering two justifications for the humanities, says Micah Mattix in today’s column . The humanities are important, first, because they teach students to be “creative” and . . . . Continue Reading »