In his latest On the Square column , David Bentley Hart shares the poems of his late, great pagan uncle Aloysius: Certain readers have requested in various ways (pseudonymous emails, menacing telegrams delivered in the dead of night, and so on) that I supply a few more details from the biography of . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . if the Democrats followed Mr. Postmodern Conservative’s advice and tried to dump Obama now? Let’s say it would be for Hilary. Or, who else would it be for? I’m assuming here a major bid, a primary run backed by huge parcels of the Democratic establishment. Not some . . . . Continue Reading »
In a time when Christianity is often taken for a collection of repressive rules and archaic strictures, Dan Farelley’s new translation of Josef Pieper’s The Christian Idea of Man is refreshing and timely. Pieper’s essay reads as a meditation or homily on Meister Eckhart’s . . . . Continue Reading »
The item Joe posted earlier today, ” Who Decides Who’s a Catholic? ” reminded me of something I wrote just a few years ago on the same subject — journalistic definitions — a few years ago. Here it is, for those who are interested: Another sad story of people . . . . Continue Reading »
‘This is the 5000th entry published on Secondhand Smoke.I started this blog at the suggestion of a friend, who opined correctly that my then Website was too static. “If you want people to come to your site,” he told me, “it has to change every day.” And he . . . . Continue Reading »
A blog with but a single entry, but it’s a very useful one: Early Christians on Abortion . He begins, as vexed as many of us were at the time, with Nancy Pelosi’s making a hash, a pro-choice hash, of Christian teaching on Meet the Press . . . . . Continue Reading »
A new study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry finds that—as pro lifers have long insisted—women who have abortions experience high rates of psychological problems. From the Telegraph story:Women who have abortions are at risk of severe mental health problems, new . . . . Continue Reading »
I prefer not to overreact to jobs reports, but today’s unemployment and job creation news has Obama looking weaker than ever. This would be a good time for a Republican who has shown the ability to win over Democratic-leaning voters, take on the spending interests, and produce a . . . . Continue Reading »
LA Times’ business columnist, David Lazarus (who I knew slightly when he worked at the SF Chronicle), writes about a man who just died of cancer after a private insurance company refused to pay for an experimental treatment that could have extended his life. (Note, the company paid for . . . . Continue Reading »
Terry Mattingly provide a useful thought experiment for journalists : Let’s say that a bunch of retired journalists from the Los Angeles Times got together and, with a few converts who yearn for the good old journalism days in that great city, form a news organization that we will call, oh, . . . . Continue Reading »
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