Ryan T. Anderson

Readers of First Things will be interested in this book by FT-contributor Frank Beckwith: . . . . Continue Reading »

Mail delivery to Rome most be delayed. Otherwise our friend Carrie Gress would have asked Joseph Pearce about the hard-hitting review in the new issue of First Things of his new book on Shakespeare’s supposed Catholic faith. If you’re a print subscriber, the August/September issue of . . . . Continue Reading »

That’s the title of a new book by Paul DeHart, professor of political science at Lee University. In a wide-ranging discussion of analytic philosophy, metaphysical and moral realism, natural teleology, and moral theory, DeHart builds on the work of Hadley Arkes, J. Budziszewski, and the . . . . Continue Reading »

I leave most of the Anglican-watching, Anglican-speculating to Jordan Hylden, but here’s a story that was left out of yesterday’s post. Over the weekend, reports came that “senior” bishops from the C of E had met with Catholic officials about swimming the Tiber en masse. . . . . Continue Reading »

“I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world—that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically. Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just marked when they’re born. That to me is the greatest . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s a nice article about the new Bioethics Institute and Chair at Franciscan University. Patrick Lee, a collegue of mine at the Witherspoon Institute , is doing great work at Franciscan. . . . . Continue Reading »

What began as a little joke around the office has become a grass-roots political movement online. Richard John Neuhaus in 2008. News Channel 3 explains: http://www.news3online.com/index.php?code=603a543g92Is08HvrocI . . . . Continue Reading »

In the current issue of America , ” A Sexual Revolution : One woman’s journey from pro-choice atheist to pro-life Catholic.” The Theology of the Body seems key. A bit from the article: Growing up in secular middle-class America, I understood sex as something disconnected from the . . . . Continue Reading »

It is remarkable that it has gone unremarked—months into the election season, and nobody seems to have noticed that John McCain is running on an astonishingly Catholic platform. Nearly every time he ventures off the establishment conservative ranch, he moves in the direction of liberal . . . . Continue Reading »

Dan Moloney, former associate editor of First Things , has a nice article up on NRO today about teenage planned pregnancy and the Gloucester case. It echoes some points that should be familiar to readers of First Things ( here and here ). . . . . Continue Reading »