I’m too lazy to even link much. 1. Romney has lost is lead in the RCP head-to-head poll average. Obama is ahead by .1% so call it a tie. Obama’s job approval is just about 50%. Obama is leading in most but not all of the swing state polls. 2. Ross Douthat . . . . Continue Reading »
At NRO earlier today I was critical of a recent New York Times editorial on marriage. So here let me recommend an article in yesterday’s paper, “ ‘Ex-Gay’ Men Fight Back Against View That Homosexuality Can’t Be Changed .” Mr. Smith is one of thousands of men across the . . . . Continue Reading »
New York—area readers, take note: Fordham University is hosting a panel discussion of animal ethics on Friday, November 16. Our own R. R. Reno will participate along with Peter Singer, David Clough, and Eric Meyer. The discussion, entitled “Christians and Other Animals: Moving the . . . . Continue Reading »
This and the next will be the last songbook posts on pop-music movies for a while. Despite my doing five(!) posts on ALMOST FAMOUS , two on the SCHOOL OF ROCK, and an epic one on THE DOORS, I do think that among my list of pop-music films , THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO is the standout in terms of sheer . . . . Continue Reading »
Patrick Ross, author of The Artist’s Road blog, enjoins English speakers and news producers to stem the tide of “word inflation” when reporting compelling news items, this week’s hurricane reportage being the latest culprit. Few settled to call Sandy an immense . . . . Continue Reading »
A statement of the Pennsylvania Catholic Bishops on the 2012 elections : We, the bishops of Pennsylvania, see next Tuesday (November 6), Election Day, as a day of historical challenge for our time. We propose this statement now because the upcoming elections, at every level, offer a critical . . . . Continue Reading »
In Egypt this weekend, the Coptic Orthodox Church will select its 118 th pope. The new pope will succeed the late Shenouda III, who led the Coptic Church—-a venerable and long-suffering communion, and the largest Christian church in the Middle East today—-for forty years. The selection . . . . Continue Reading »
And some tough comments on the vacuity of Romney’s campaign and the pandering of the president’s: The nature of the 2012 campaign poses an additional difficulty. I cannot remember an election in which the gap was greater between the magnitude of our problems and the substance of our . . . . Continue Reading »
Colm Toibin: You Have to Be Terrible to Write . . . Nigel Farndale, Telegraph Communing with Saints Molly T. Marshall, Associated Baptist Press Archdiocese of Boston: Resurrection Patrick Doyle, Boston Magazine How Europe Was Crushed John Connelly, Washington Post When Smart Theologians Endorse . . . . Continue Reading »
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