The Editors

Timothy George, Evangelical leader and member of the First Things board, shares  his favorite five biographies of theologians . Joseph Kanon, spy novelist, explains how he chooses his subjects . The Anchoress gives a Rosary meditation for job-seekers . David Klinghoffer discusses the move from . . . . Continue Reading »

Vatican preparing new document on effects of abortion on women The new president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Archbishop Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, announced that his dicastery is preparing a document on the effects of abortion on women, often called post-abortion syndrome. The document . . . . Continue Reading »

Finally remembered is the brave and multi-talented  Garland of Arabia , a mentor to Lawrence of Arabia, who said Garland was “much more use than I could be” in blowing up railroads and teaching the Bedouin to do it, and thereby aiding England during World War I. The . . . . Continue Reading »

A Bosnian man, whose house has been hit six times by meterorites , explains that “I am obviously being targeted by extraterrestrials. I don’t know what I have done to annoy them.” The Washington Post offers a symposium on Should religions intermarry? A Catholic pyschotherapist . . . . Continue Reading »

Doctors in India Worried Over Abuse of ‘Morning-After’ Pill Health-care workers and government officials in India are concerned over the routine and indiscriminate use of emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs), commonly called the “morning-after” pill. The pills, which have a . . . . Continue Reading »

An English engineer solves the mystery of Pisa’s leaning tower’s lean , and finds a way to stabilize it.  Not all Italians are happy. Jonathan Cohn thinks Obama’s a success and gets annoyed with liberals who don’t see that , because they undermine the cause. . . . . Continue Reading »

A very light day. The Buddhist nation of Bhutan Proposes an ‘Anti-Conversion’ Law that will punish “proselytizing” that “uses coercion or other forms of inducement,” a law Christians fear is so broadly worded that they will be falsely accused. Adam Kirsch’s . . . . Continue Reading »

We apologize for the absence of Second Links the last two days. The compiler was down with a stomach bug and finding out that why “feeling like a wrung out dish cloth” is such a good metaphor. In Florence, parts of Galileo have been put on display . “‘He’s a secular . . . . Continue Reading »

An Islamic publication in England has “called Muslims to attend the Mass to convert Catholics and ‘tell the Pope in no uncertain terms what Muslims think of his evil slanders against the last Prophet of God and his message’,” reports Matthew Archbold in Is the Pope in . . . . Continue Reading »

A database of public university salaries , with the figures for some administrators’ salaries that still startle us outsiders. The New York Post offers what one of our editors describes as an almost Eberstadtian take on pornography . (The reference being to Mary Eberstadt’s The Weight . . . . Continue Reading »