In order to better facilitate discussion on this blog, we’ve recently updated our commenting policies to include a limit on the length of comments. Comments can run to no longer than approximately three hundred words (1900 characters, including spaces). Multiple-part comments are not allowed; . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s old news, but consistently ignored. In her 2011 book, Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys , Kay Hymowitz reports basic facts about gender, income, and status. Here are some arresting statistics. Women between 25-34 with college educations now outnumber men in their . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, the new issue of PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICAL SCIENCE is out. It features diverse and deep symposia on two outstanding recent books: PLATO’S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY by Mark Blitz and our Ralph Hancock’s THE RESPONSIBILITY OF REASON. Commentators on Ralphism include Ralph himself . . . . Continue Reading »
In anticipation of this coming weekend’s New York Encounter January 18-20, I just finished re-reading the presentation that Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete , the Crossroads Cultural Center ‘s Chairman, gave to the board earlier this year about the creation of Crossroads, which led to the . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the most effective groups on the pro-life and pro-family scene in Ireland is the Iona Institute run by David Quinn who is one of our side’s most effective spokesman on national television. Of course, David and his colleagues are in the thick of the current battles over legal abortion . . . . Continue Reading »
Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. on evangelizing young adults : The current White House, and many others in our nation’s leadership classes, have a very different understanding of religious liberty from what our country’s founders intended. As a result, I’ve thought a great deal . . . . Continue Reading »
This is almost worth crossing the pond to see: John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice: The Musical . In order to draw inspiration for his magnum opus, John Rawls travels back through time to converse (in song) with a selection of political philosophers, including Plato, Locke, Rousseau and Mill. . . . . Continue Reading »
Balkan Insight reports : A year-long celebration marking 1,700 years since the Roman Empire granted Christians religious freedom will start on January 17 in the Serbian city of Nis, where Roman emperor Constantine the Great was born. . . . On the opening day of the celebrations a concert of . . . . Continue Reading »
“‘An epileptic chicken,’ is how the accused described Smerdyakov.” Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, unless the family consists of a morally depraved patriarch and three highly differentiated siblings who, after years out of contact with each other, convene at the family home . . . . Continue Reading »
The idea of David Brooks teaching a class on the subject of humility at Yale strikes a lot of people as inherently funny, and making allowances for mean-spiritedness (and I dare say jealousy), the mockers do have a point. Humility, as a virtue, bears the same relation to op-ed columnizing as . . . . Continue Reading »
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