Nathaniel Peters

Via Mark Shea , here’s John Cleese explaining genetic determinism. I was never that good at biology in college, but this seems to make sense to me. . . . . Continue Reading »

At Salon, Camille Paglia writes that Sarah Palin shows a kind of frontier feminism heretofore ignored in the national scene. Paglia gives an example of this that she saw in her own childhood: Here’s one episode. My father and his visiting brother, a dapper barber by trade, were standing . . . . Continue Reading »

At Salon.com , Juan Cole asks what the differences between Christian fundamentalists, like Sarah Palin, and Islamic fundamentalists are? Lipstick is the answer he finds. That she’s not wearing a burka or having her daughter flogged and stoned for adultery might be another. But those are about . . . . Continue Reading »

The New Liturgical Movement has the exercise for those of us who are less athletic, but enjoy Gregorian chant. . . . . Continue Reading »

Looking back at the 1993 June/July issue, I found an interesting meditation on friendship between men and women by Gilbert Meilaender. It also has what may be the only citation of Dave Barry in our pages. . . . . Continue Reading »

Just a reminder that this Saturday begins the monthly Witness for Life rallies in New York City. The schedule is: 8:00am Mass at Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral (263 Mulberry St.—enter at Mott St.) 8:45am Rosary Procession to Planned Parenthood (26 Bleeker St.) Silent prayer there. 10:15am . . . . Continue Reading »

Mark Shea does a nice job showing the left’s visceral hatred and fear of everything Sarah Palin stands for. It’s not what she thinks, but who she is. I noted this the other night at a barbecue with a friend from college and some of the folks she’d met in her year in New York. When . . . . Continue Reading »

Those who are wondering about the state of our long-time contributor Avery Cardinal Dulles might enjoy this update on his 90th birthday party from Rocco Palmo at Whispers in the Loggia . The upshot is that the cardinal is greatly incapacitated, so please keep him in your prayers. . . . . Continue Reading »

Christina Hoff Sommers at the American Enterprise Institute has an interesting essay on recovering a truly liberating feminism (via Arts & Letters Daily ). A sample: That is an understandable but unwarranted reaction. Women in the West did form a movement and did liberate themselves in ways of . . . . Continue Reading »

Joseph Bottum wrote : “though surely it’s an odd moment when an out-of-wedlock pregnancy becomes a symbol of conservative cultural values, but chalk it all up as yet another way in which abortion has skewed the natural divisions of American politics.” I beg to differ. The issue is . . . . Continue Reading »