Stefan McDaniel

Flipping through the first volume of Fr. Neuhaus’ The Best of the Public Square I happened upon this diverting item from the December 1994 While We’re At It: “The Politics of the Breast” is an opinion piece in the New York Times advocating the right of women to go . . . . Continue Reading »

It has been almost a week since Fr. Neuhaus’ death, but only now, in the quiet after the storm of activity surrounding his burial, can I reflect on what his work and witness have done for me. To be sure, his death means I have lost the wise counsel of a man quickly becoming something like a . . . . Continue Reading »

Here are two more tributes, one from Sean Curnyn and the other from our former managing editor, Anthony Sacramone . . . . . Continue Reading »

And here I was thinking that I was the only one: . . . . Continue Reading »

In his Erasmus lecture ( featured in the current issue of First Things ), “Christianity Face to Face with Islam,” Robert Louis Wilken makes a generalization that seems unassailably true: Most of the territories that were Christian in the year 700 are now Muslim. Nothing similar has . . . . Continue Reading »

One wonders what Dante would have said about this . . . . . Continue Reading »

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Many conservatives hope political pressure will force Obama to move to the center. There’s indeed good reason to expect that he will pursue a moderate economic and foreign policy, but he seems wholly set on preserving and strengthening the Roe regime and supporting other socially liberal . . . . Continue Reading »

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Only the infinite God can compass Man’s infinite idiocy. “Diogenes” presents us with this choice cut of scholarly nonsense : The head of the history department at Virginia Military Institute suggests that the Apostle Paul may have been spying for the Romans. Rose Mary Sheldon, the . . . . Continue Reading »