Nathaniel Peters

If any of you miss the writings of our former managing editor, Anthony Sacramone, or enjoyed his previous career as Luther at the Movies, rejoice and be glad. Anthony will continue to write for us, but now has his own blog as well. Strange Herring is like a funnier, less serious First Things , so . . . . Continue Reading »

Barack Obama has nominated Tom Daschle, the former senator from South Dakota, to be the secretary of health and human services . That brings another pro-choice Catholic into not only the new administration, but the post which will articulate executive policy on health care and the life questions. . . . . Continue Reading »

If you’re looking for an author who can help you argue about the origins of human life and the beginning of personhood, Maureen Condic is very good. She’s written a number of articles in First Things on the beginning of human life and stem cells ( here , here , and here , to name but . . . . Continue Reading »

The philosopher Jean-Luc Marion has been elected to the Académie Française, filling the chair vacated in August 2007 by the death of Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger. Renowned for his scholarship on Descartes, Marion is one of the great Catholic intellectuals of our time. In its . . . . Continue Reading »

Groupies of FT contributor and physics professor Stephen M. Barr will find a recording of his recent lecture by that name on the website of the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer in New York. . . . . Continue Reading »

On the New Liturgical Movement today I found a recording of Carthusian chant from the film Into Great Silence . The author of the post on NLM can’t find the adjectives to describe the chant, and neither can I. It does not have the polished perfection of a professional recording, but much . . . . Continue Reading »

The Dominicans report that one of their own has helped convert one of Serbia’s most notorious abortionists into an advocate for the unborn. The whole story is worth reading, but the critical part involves the appearance of a certain Angelic Doctor: In describing his conversion, Adasevic . . . . Continue Reading »

Over at Real Clear Politics , Thomas Sowell counters Nicholas Kristof’s pleasure that in the Obama administration, “intellectuals”—the ones who are “interested in ideas and comfortable with complexity” and “read the classics”—will be back in . . . . Continue Reading »

My former colleague Ryan T. Anderson has a review in this week’s Weekly Standard questioning the claims of neuroscientist Michael S. Gazzaniga’s book Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique . Here’s a sample: Gazzaniga’s thoroughgoing physicalism, which motivates his . . . . Continue Reading »

If you haven’t yet read P.J. O’Rourke’s extended rant in the Weekly Standard , you should . “We Blew It” is the title and about sums it up: An entire generation has been born, grown up, and had families of its own since Ronald Reagan was elected. And where is the world . . . . Continue Reading »