First Links — 8.7.12

When Calvin and Qutb Went Smashing Philip Jenkins, RealClearReligion Conservatives and the State Francis Fukuyama, The American Interest In Defense of Apologetics Tim Keller, The Gospel Coalition The Death-Haunted Art of Friendship Eve Tushnet,  Catholic Lane Porky Populism Rod Dreher, The . . . . Continue Reading »

The Final Four?

So I was watching the 6:00 PM Fox News show.  It is a pretty good straight news program. They focused on Tim Pawlenty, Rob Portman, Paul Ryan, and Marco Rubio as the four who are being looked at the hardest to be Romney’s running mate.  The Weekly Standard came out . . . . Continue Reading »

Introducing Katie Infantine

We’d like to introduce readers to our second Junior Fellow for the 2012-2013 year, Katherine Infantine, who officially joined the First Things  editorial staff at the beginning of August. A brief bio: Katie Infantine graduated in 2010 with honors from Gonzaga University where she served . . . . Continue Reading »

The “Sub Human Temptation”

Wonder of wonder, miracle of miracles—a pro human exceptionalism opinion piece in the New York Times blog—the newspaper in which we have previously been told that plants are ethical and peas are persons—and by a philosophy professor, no less!  From “Anything But . . . . Continue Reading »

Drone Use Is (or at least can be) Moral

Recently, Robert P. George offered on these pages a much needed warning against the indiscriminate drone use that that has become characteristic of U.S. foreign policy. Yet what are Christians and others who believe in aboslute moral norms to make of the morality of drone use itself? Writing in the . . . . Continue Reading »

On the Square Today

R.R. Reno on the neo-bourgeois project : Over the last fifty or so years, our common culture has decayed. Inane reality TV has replaced anodyne shows like “Leave it to Beaver.” Sex, profanity, and violence course through fiber-optic wires. Pornography dominates the internet. All of this . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 8.6.12

The Prayers of a Poet Micah Mattix, Wall Street Journal On the Church’s “Year of Grace” Sr. Joan L. Roccasalvo, Homiletic & Pastoral Review Episcopal-to-Catholic Converts Bob Faw, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly A Pagan Prophesy Marc Barnes, Bad Catholic Things Fall Apart . . . . Continue Reading »