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Rome in High Season

Something like Civil War re-enactments, but with a great deal more violence, Rome plays host to an annual replay of the barbarian invasion every summer. Precisely when every Roman who can decamps for beach or mountains, the world’s tourists descend on the city in impossibly large numbers. . . . . Continue Reading »

I-40 Days and I-40 Nights, Part II

Picking up where we left off.Smith County, Tennessee, where we stopped for gas and lunch, was the scene of some unplanned evangelizing on our part. That is, I don’t know that we evangelized anyone, exactly, so much as simply engaged in pleasant and informative conversation. Possibly the people . . . . Continue Reading »

Buttiglione Clarifies?

As John Allen reports , in July, Rocco Buttiglione announced that his support for laws banning abortion had been a mistake: Perhaps the most prominent pro-life politician in Europe has said that he won’t support efforts to make abortion illegal, because “God entrusts a child to its mother . . . . Continue Reading »

Darwin in the Louvre

Zbigniew Janowski reviews Denis Dutton’s The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution : The human artistic drive is as old as the species itself. The famous Lascaux cave paintings in France show that even at the earliest stages man had an urge for expression beyond utilitarian . . . . Continue Reading »

Keeping Out the Jews

The Senate in Jordan recently approved a law that would allow non-Muslim religious organizations to operate in the country, but the Jordanian House has refused the idea. According to the Jordan Times , “MPs who rejected this proposal said that if the law is endorsed as proposed by the . . . . Continue Reading »

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