Some of us spent all or much of the weekend at this year’s New York Encounter , sponsored by the Catholic movement Communion and Liberation. It’s an annual event and we’d recommend it for those of you in the area who might be able to come next year. Among the highlights for me was . . . . Continue Reading »
Occasioned by Peter Lawler’s trenchant thoughts, 1. Obama took office during a combination deep recession and banking crisis. You would expect corporate profits to recover absent a 1930s-style deflationary cycle + collapse of the banking system. Ben Bernanke might have gotten some things . . . . Continue Reading »
1. So Dr. Pat Deneen on FACEBOOK reminded us that corporate profits are up 161% under Obama. That’s faster than any comparable period since 1900. Pat’s comment: “Some socialist!” 2. Not only that, of course, but the STOCK MARKET is way up under our president. I’m too . . . . Continue Reading »
“Never begin a sentence with and, ” my college freshmen have been told. This is another one of those rules that somebody must have dreamed up in a rage of vengeance: a schoolmaster named Ichabod, disappointed in love, glowering down on his young charges, and thinking, “Yes, I . . . . Continue Reading »
Josh Marshall writes: But a huge amount of the current gun debate, the argument for the gun-owning tribe, amounts to the gun culture invading my area, my culture, my part of the country. That is where I think that Marshall goes wrong in his whole essay. No part of the country belongs to his . . . . Continue Reading »
Very bad news. Bill Sakovich, the writer of what was the best single-foreign-country-specific blog in English that I’ve ever read, Ampontan, a blog on all things Japanese but especially its politics, passed away due to a suddenly-discovered stomach cancer this December 21. I just found . . . . Continue Reading »
Beginning today and continuing through Friday, we will be highlighting the expert analysis and thoughtful recommendations of 12 pastors, scholars and opinion leaders from across the country. They respond to the recently released report titled Does the Shape of Families Shape Faith? Challenging . . . . Continue Reading »
The holiday season was too busy for me to compile this sort of list, especially with a move to a new home thrown in, an event that always makes one ambivalent about book ownership anyhow. “Isn’t time to invest in a Kindle?” was the crack my younger economist friend made as we filled . . . . Continue Reading »
First Things readers may remember the late Richard John Neuhaus’s critique of N.T. Wright, entitled The Possibilities and Perils in Being a Really Smart Bishop : Most of [Wright’s Surprised by Hope ] is devoted to making the case for a greater accent in Christian piety and liturgy on . . . . Continue Reading »
I like how hillbillies pronounce this relative pronoun: hwut. It’s truest to the spelling and the history of the word. Wally Cleaver pronounced it that way, too. He said hwen and hwere and hwy? A well-brought-up lad he was. The monks who introduced the Roman . . . . Continue Reading »
Subscribe
Latest Issue
Support First Things
