1. Rineke Dijkstra at the Guggenheim Museum , through October 8 The Dutch photographer’s portraits of adolescents and young people uncover the awkwardness of still-growing bodies in her signature beach photos from the ‘90s and by the later ‘00s capture a new generation at home in . . . . Continue Reading »
Today’s Slate carries a retrospective on Judith Wallerstein , who died last month, by her professional collaborator Sandra Blakeslee. Wallerstein was one of the first social scientists to study the impact of divorce on children. Blakeslee opens with a fascinating vignette on how Wallerstein . . . . Continue Reading »
Wesley J. Smith on freedom of worship’s assault on freedom of religion : What’s the difference? Under freedom of worship, the Catholic and Orthodox churches both remain perfectly free to teach that the Eucharistic bread and wine transform into the body and blood of Christ. Muslims can . . . . Continue Reading »
I remember watching Obama in 2008. He was asked about an issue on which he had changed his mind. Obama answered that he had opposed the 1996 welfare reform law (with its time limits and work requirements) because he though it would hurt families, but the actual experience of dropping . . . . Continue Reading »
In the most recent issue of Dappled Things , Damian J. Ference provides an engaging assessment of the similarities between the works of Pope Benedict XVI and Flannery O’Connor. In his article, “No Vague Believer: The Specificity of the Person of Christ According to Flannery . . . . Continue Reading »
On the front page of yesterday’s Washington Post (and already online the night before) appeared a story about five—count ‘em, five—catechists in the Catholic diocese of Arlington, Virginia who will no longer be catechists in the next school year because they declined to make . . . . Continue Reading »
I will be doing an every-other-Friday column for First Things’ “On the Square,” and am most pleased. Today, I illustrate how bioethical issues have become the battle ground for a secularist assault against freedom of religion, by seeking to shrink the core liberty to a . . . . Continue Reading »
German Rabbis Mobilize Against Court Ruling David Rising, Associated Press The Big Higgs Question Steven Weinberg, New York Review of Books The Mystery of China’s Missing Bishop John Sudworth, BBC After the Fortnight, What Next? Thomas Peters, Catholic Vote The . . . . Continue Reading »
Not good I think. Hopefully not true - like most VP rumours. . . . . Continue Reading »
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