I’m not sure we are seeing all the sources of resentment against the fabled 47% who don’t pay income taxes. Romney was caught affecting to despise and write off this 47% who, according to Romney: a) Don’t pay income taxes. b) Are going to vote for Obama. c) Are dependent and think . . . . Continue Reading »
From Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters : My impression of Republicans, after living among them as an interested and sympathetic observer for almost two years, [is that] as a group you have almost no confidence that any serious thinker could be with you on any issue of consequence. . . . . Continue Reading »
Ever since 1803, all Germans citizens registered with the government as Catholics, Protestants, or Jews have paid a “church tax.” 8-9% of the individual’s income tax bill goes to the government, which holds on to the money for a little while before passing it on to the church of . . . . Continue Reading »
“Describing the Sabbath is like describing ice cream to somebody who has never eaten it. You can describe it all you want, but the proof is in the big spoonful of Cherry Garcia.” Gayle Trotter: Today I am speaking with Dr. Matthew Sleeth, author of the book 24/6: a . . . . Continue Reading »
My dear friend and intellectual collaborator Dan Kelly argues today that “marriage is dead.” I respect Dan as a man who says what he thinks without fear or favor; that’s why I value both his friendship and his co-labor. He’s not going to start pretending . . . . Continue Reading »
Robert P. George has already noted the sad passing of Eugene Genovese earlier this week. Genovese played a large role in the life of the magazine, with his wife, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, serving on our advisory council. Here’s Richard John Neuhaus writing in his “Public Square” . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday I lost a dear friend and the academic world lost one of its most gifted scholars and teachers: Eugene Genovese, the great historian of slavery and the American South. Although born into a Catholic family, Gene was for most of his adult life a Marxist. Under the influence of his beloved . . . . Continue Reading »
Russell E. Saltzman on memory and the Lord’s Supper : The Lord’s Last Supper becomes “a real memory” for us, a real event we live through and are expected to remember as vividly as yesterday. It isn’t something Jesus did with his disciples in Jerusalem once upon a time. It . . . . Continue Reading »
“As the French playwright Jean Anouilh said, ‘Beauty is one of the few things in the world that do not lead to doubt about God’,” says Fr. Peter Cameron, O.P., interviewed by Our Sunday Visitor . “The Church intuits that immediately. When we’re in the . . . . Continue Reading »
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