The Editors

In today’s On the Square feature , Christopher T. Haley explains how a federal conscience exemption excludes Catholic institutions from participating: There has been some talk lately—though not nearly enough—about the new healthcare mandate authored by the Institute of Medicine . . . . Continue Reading »

In his latest On the Square column , Joe Carter wonders when it is ever moral to target civilians in wartime: As I walked along the streets of Hiroshima I tried to imagine the city on fire. Fifty-six years earlier the atomic bomb “Little Boy” had set the area aflame, killing nearly a . . . . Continue Reading »

In her latest On the Square Column, Elizabeth Scalia reflects on feeling the presence of God : Just about two years ago, I had occasion to make a monastic retreat that included the gift and privilege of perpetual adoration. The community of Dominican nuns kept constant vigil, one-by-one with our . . . . Continue Reading »

In his latest On the Square column , R.R. Reno wonders “Does the Tea Party Have a Religion Problem?” Think about it. If you are a liberal of any stripe, then the success of the Tea Party in reshaping the priorities of the Republican Party, and through the Republican Party the debate in . . . . Continue Reading »

In his latest On the Square column , David Bentley Hart considers the opposition between grammar “precriptivists” and “descriptivists”: The prescriber believes clarity, precision, subtlety, nuance, and poetic richness need to be defended against the leveling drabness of mass . . . . Continue Reading »

In his latest On the Square column , Russell E. Saltzman says that America’s politics is a mix of partisanship and pragmatism: Based on my own political experience in the 1970s, I related I did not in all my time in politics know any politician prepared to live or die by the rigidities of an . . . . Continue Reading »

In his latest On the Square column, Joe Carter discusses what conservatives should mean when talking about limited government : There’s an old Cold War-era joke about an ex-Communist who gets into an argument with a young man newly infatuated with Marxism. After the youth repeatedly attempts . . . . Continue Reading »

In her latest On the Square column , Elizabeth Scalia considers the riots in England and notes that what is a daily reality in Britain will soon be America’s reality, too: It’s not like we cannot see this for ourselves. As we view security videos of “flash mobs”—unconcerned . . . . Continue Reading »

For his column this week, David Mills considers why Protestants tend to disregard the Assumption : The Assumption of Mary is a difficult matter, from the Protestant point of view, because the traces and hints in Scripture are not easily found, unless you assume that they are there to be found, . . . . Continue Reading »

In his latest On the Square column, Joe Carter provides a lesson in journalism for the New Yorker : Sara Lippincott, who worked in the New Yorker ’s famed fact-checking department from 1966 until 1982, once told a class of journalism students that, “Each word in the piece that has even a . . . . Continue Reading »