I was rereading the review of Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor that I mentioned yesterday , and I ran across this puzzling sentence: You could read all of O’Connor’s work and conclude that she hated God, with an amused and bitter hatred; you could, with somewhat less support, . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Upturned Earth, John Schwenkler has asked for an eighth-grade-level refresher course on what an r-squared value means . Given how prone to misinterpretation the correlation coefficient is, it’s a little bit easier to talk about what it doesn’t mean. This is also a useful . . . . Continue Reading »
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 »
Tomorrow on SIRIUS Satellite Radio’s Catholic Channel Amanda Shaw and I are scheduled to discuss living and working with Fr. Neuhaus. Our host will be Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P., whose show “Word to Life” is broadcast live from 1:00—2:00 PM. If you get SIRIUS channel 159 or . . . . Continue Reading »
If you happened to miss Raymond Arroyo’s tribute to Father Neuhaus last friday on EWTN’s “The World Over,” the video has been posted online. George Weigel, Michael Novak, and Joseph Bottum spend the hour reminiscing about Father’s amazing life and the legacy he has . . . . Continue Reading »
Over coffee this morning, I found that Razib Khan and Ross Douthat have started a lively little debate about the use and abuse of the term "Judeo-Christian". Khan argues that it’s little more than political correctness. In fact, the dominant form of Judaism between . . . . Continue Reading »
Each year the Center for Bioethics and Culture asks me to prognosticate about the coming year. This year, that duty is painful. I believe we are entering dark days. But it is my job to call them as I see them without honey coating. (This is an abridged version. For more details read the original . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Book Forum , Wendy Lesser has written a fascinating review of Brad Gooch’s new biography Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor : Gooch clearly loves O’Connor, but they are just as clearly a bad match (as are so many of the pairings—religious, marital, filial, . . . . Continue Reading »
Does anyone out there really believe in “metaphysical neutrality” in the political realm, or, for that matter, in a purely “political” liberalism (later Rawls) that would be neutral with respect to understandings of the meaning of life, or of “the . . . . Continue Reading »
Cardinal Martino is the former representative of the Holy See to the United Nations, and he now heads the Vatican’s Council for Justice and Peace—from which perch he recently commented , to an interviewer at Il Sussidiario , about the Israeli invasion of Gaza. “The consequences of . . . . Continue Reading »
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