The joyful anticipation of a fresh conquest is palpable on the front page of today’s New York Times : ” In a Quick Shift, Scouts Rethink a Ban on Gays .” That’s right, at its national executive board meeting next week, the Boy Scouts of America will consider eliminating . . . . Continue Reading »
We are very pleased to introduce Maureen Mullarkey as our newest blogger. Her blog will take up cultural, artistic, and (of course) religious matters. Here’s a bit of her introductory post : I am a painter, as was my father. He descended from a line of British bricklayers who had taken up . . . . Continue Reading »
An Unrecognizable America Carson Holloway, Public Discourse The Possibility of Progress Jeremy Kessler, New Atlantis Pride and Prejudice at 200 Heather Horn, Atlantic In Defense of Church-Hopping Michelle Van Loon, Her.menutics St. Gregory Nazianzen as Confessional Theologian Eclectic Orthodoxy . . . . Continue Reading »
Everyone forgets that Nathan Leopold died a free man. The first part of his story is familiar enough: He and Richard Loeb were two intellectually precocious teenagers from Chicago’s wealthy German Jewish elite, and they read too much Nietzsche and started thinking they were supermen. Loeb, the . . . . Continue Reading »
Between 15010 and 1512, Leonardo da Vinci drew the human fetus with startling and unprecedented accuracy. According to Arizona State Univeristy’s Embryo Project Encyclopedia , Leonardo is regarded as “the very first in history to correctly depict the human fetus in its proper position . . . . Continue Reading »
Quick: Define nugatory, macerate, and ferrous, and use each in a sentence. A bit rusty on your vocabulary? You may want to brush up—-and make sure your kids do, too. As E. D. Hirsch Jr. writes in City Journal: There’s no better index to accumulated knowledge and general competence than the size . . . . Continue Reading »
I have received a good number of emails on Tom West’s friendly criticism of our dogmatically Straussian Locke. Here’s one from our friend Ivan Kenneally: The thread on Locke is a provocative one. I think West is half right—the absence of any epistemological access to natural . . . . Continue Reading »
From the National Organization for Marriage’s Brian Brown: Not long ago, I sent you an email hinting that NOM was getting ready to launch some major initiatives. Well, after participating in the March for Life last Friday, I am excited to announce that NOM is putting together a March for . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m a Christian intellectual. (I hope that’s true, on both counts). I have a PhD in theology. That’s what I know best. I participate in the Christian form of life, or at least I try to. It provides me with my most basic intellectual tools. This Christian way of thinking is not . . . . Continue Reading »