-
Ryan T. Anderson
Thank you, Alliance Defending Freedom, for your heroic work defending life, marriage, and liberty. During the past year it has been a blessing to work together on marriage. It’s been a source of encouragement. Thank you Austin Nimocks, Kellie Fiedorek, and Greg Scott for your friendship over the past year .Continue Reading »
When the Institute for American Values asked me to write a short response to their new report on marriage, I was happy to oblige and am grateful they posted it. It turns out the president of IAV, David Blankenhorn, is decidedly unhappy with what I wrote, replying in his own piece: “No thank . . . . Continue Reading »
At NRO earlier today I was critical of a recent New York Times editorial on marriage. So here let me recommend an article in yesterdays paper, Ex-Gay Men Fight Back Against View That Homosexuality Cant Be Changed . Mr. Smith is one of thousands of men across the . . . . Continue Reading »
Back in March 2007, I suggested in a First Things On The Square article that Bono Still Hasnt Found What Hes Looking For . Critical of the approach the U2 rocker took to developmental aid, I argued: Regardless of whether foreign aid caused, and continues to cause, these . . . . Continue Reading »
In one of his last major public addresses, Fr. Richard John Neuhaus declared that until every human being created in the image and likeness of God is protected in law and cared for in life, we shall not weary, we shall not rest. And, in this the great human-rights struggle of our time and all . . . . Continue Reading »
Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver: Honoring the Work of Leon R. Kass edited by Yuval Levin, Thomas W. Merrill, and Adam Schulman Lexington, 296 pages, $80 Leon Kass is a national treasure. I first came across his work nearly a decade ago as he led the Presidents Council on Bioethics to . . . . Continue Reading »
Reasonable Faith By John Haldane Routledge, 224 pages, $39.95, paper In his 2004 book Faithful Reason , John Haldane noted without qualification that throughout his training in analytic philosophy he never felt any tension between faith and reason. He went on to add that my faith . . . . Continue Reading »
The Social and Political Thought of Benedict XVI by Thomas R. Rourke
From the Aug/Sept 2010 Print EditionThe Social and Political Thought of Benedict XVI By Thomas R. Rourke Lexington, 158 pages, $55 This short book provides a nice, although rather basic, introduction to the social and political thought of Benedict XVI. Thomas Rourke, a professor of political science, finds in Benedict a thinker who . . . . Continue Reading »
God, Philosophy, Universities: A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition BY ALASDAIR MACINTYRE ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD, 180 PAGES, $29.95 Without intending it, Alasdair MacIntyre may have written the most important response to the New Atheists. Of course he never even mentions . . . . Continue Reading »
Aquinas: A Beginners Guide by Edward Feser Oneworld Publications, 224 pages, $14.95 Do not let the subtitle deter you. While Aquinas is a beginners guide, it is rigorous and accessible philosophy at its best. Even seasoned Thomists will benefit from Edward Fesers . . . . Continue Reading »
influential
journal of
religion and
public life Subscribe Latest Issue Support First Things