The Editors

In his latest On the Square column , R.R. Reno considers the future of the European Union: From its beginnings in the early 1950s as a common market of coal and steel, post-war efforts to unify Europe have been based on the presumption that interlocking economic interests would lead to a new and . . . . Continue Reading »

In his latest On the Square column , Peter J. Leithart explains why human relations need an intrusive third party if they are to be healthy: Our erotic imaginations have been captured by what Yale’s Paul W. Kahn has called the “pornographic.” The pornographic imagines sex without the . . . . Continue Reading »

In his latest On the Square column , Joe Carter explains the “mutual help” model of marriage: The institution of marriage, under this model, becomes the joining together in a one-flesh union of two individuals, a physical embodiment of the mysterious paradox of unity and diversity. . . . . Continue Reading »

In his latest On the Square column , George Weigel offers suggestions on how to break bad liturgical habits: The long-awaited introduction of the new translation of the Roman Missal on Nov. 27, the first Sunday of Advent, offers the Church in the Anglophere an opportunity to reflect on the riches . . . . Continue Reading »

In her latest On the Square column , Elizabeth Scalia shares what she’s learned from the saints: In the Office of Readings for today, Saint Bernard instructs: “The saints want us to be with them, and we are indifferent. The souls of the just await us, and we ignore them . . . We should . . . . Continue Reading »

In his latest On the Square column , David Mills examines Occupy Wall Street’s empty anger: They make you miss Marx, these Occupy Wall Streeters. Though even the New York Times first treated them as a slightly comical affair, the major media now give them the same extensive, sober, even . . . . Continue Reading »

In today’s On the Square feature, Matthew Hennessey discusses liturgy and the diminution of American Catholicism : The revolutionary developments of the late 1960s—the ones my friend remembers so affectionately—weren’t, in the end, enough to keep him and his cohort in communion . . . . Continue Reading »

In his latest On the Square column , Russell E. Saltzman shares some of the dumb requests people make for their weddings and funerals: There was that one time I ended up playing straight man to the groom’s dog. I didn’t know anything about the animal until perhaps three days before the . . . . Continue Reading »

In his latest On the Square column , George Weigel explains the emerging crisis in the Ukraine: The Oct. 11 sentencing of former prime minister and Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko to seven years in prison may or may not stand. Miss Tymoshenko has appealed the sentence and several . . . . Continue Reading »

In his latest On the Square Column , R.R. Reno considers whether it might be time to abandon the tenure system in higher education: What is the real significance of tenure? We are often told that free-thinking academics need the security of tenure to preserve academic freedom and open debate. . . . . Continue Reading »