In February we’ll be opening applications for next year’s junior fellowships, with an official announcement going up on our site on February 1. But it’s not too early to think of students and recent graduates who might benefit from the program. The fellowship lasts a year, from . . . . Continue Reading »
Theologians who may have missed their latest copy of the Economist should (not) rush to check out this muddle of the Christian doctrine of hell, which runs together works of fiction, speculation, and actual dogma, folklore with official teaching, and different denominations of Christianity and . . . . Continue Reading »
Daniel Silliman ponders on his blog whether charity could entirely replace the welfare state, as some conservatives desire: Could private charities move beyond assistance, beyond helping at the points where the system of government assistance is breaking down, replacing government with . . . . Continue Reading »
I do coins. One of my parishioners some years before her death gave me the coins her husband acquired on his many European travels. I just today got around to researching one of them. It’s from the Isle of Brechqa (also spelled Brecqhou), a small, small part of the English Channel Islands . . . . Continue Reading »
“I’ll be what they see,” says Amanda. “They see me through eyes of love. I’d do anything for them, even this.” The “they” she is referring to is her daughters. The “this” she means is ” telling my girls that I think I’m . . . . Continue Reading »
Ross Douthat responds to David Bentley Hart’s essay on Jung: I agree with parts of this diagnosis, but I think it’s slightly incomplete, because I think that much of modern Gnosticism is less disenchanted and post-metaphysical than Hart implies. Having spent a fair amount of time reading . . . . Continue Reading »
Wesley J. Smith on the coming public conflict over human cloning : Ultimately, cloning would be the key that opens the door to countless other brave new world technologies, like one possible future procedure already termed “fetal farming,” whereby cloned fetuses would be matured in . . . . Continue Reading »
So a very kind and patient conservative wrote me on why THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE got so mad at me for merely summarizing the “neocon” position: Well, they’re more excited about Hagel personally than I am. Still, it’s a symbolic victory for realist elements. Incidentally, . . . . Continue Reading »
Today Commentary Magazine ’s website features my contribution to a symposium on the future of conservatism that was published in their January issue. These reflections are part of my larger concerns about the future of American conservatism, which I elaborate on in the Public Square in the . . . . Continue Reading »
One of my favorite things about the Yale Glee Club , of which I was a member for three years, is its attention to and care for old student songs. Every member upon joining is given a Yale Song Book, full of things like “Gaudeamus Igitur,” “‘Neath the Elms”, and, of . . . . Continue Reading »
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