Joe Carter on the Pentagon’s removing the ban on women in combat : In response to the news I won’t offer an argument, only a lament. The arguments against allowing women in combat have for decades been made with force and vigor, but to no avail. Because the rational commonsense of the . . . . Continue Reading »
An easy target, I admit, but also irresistable: a clerical fashion show in which English clerics of various denominations walk the catwalk wearing chasables, capes, clergy shirts, and clergy skirts (short). The Daily Mail writer calls the vestments “cutting-edge,” but . . . . Continue Reading »
In addition to Joe Carter’s lament this morning on the subject of women in combat, see (if you can, it’s behind a paywall) this piece by Iraq war veteran Ryan Smith in today’s Wall Street Journal . His description of modern combat’s reality—-that the ancient . . . . Continue Reading »
1. So I agree with the comment in the thread that “we Straussians” are overdoing our texual analysis of our President’s Second Inaugural. Maybe we even do the same thing with President Lincoln’s (although it was much better and actually beautiful). SOME of us did the same . . . . Continue Reading »
Habits of the Mind: Intellectual Life as Vocation Paul D. Miller, Schaeffer’s Ghost How Politics Infected Sports Marc Tracy, The Book Whom Are We Friends with and Why? Hannah Jung, Dartmouth Apologia Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm Leah Libresco, Fare Forward Lutheran Ordinariate Coming? . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s a classic case of local interests pitted against national administrative despots: some Irish locals want to moderate the drunk driving laws, because the practical effect they have is to keep older rural citizens isolated in their homes at night, killing the pubs. Losing one’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Colbert Report chaplain and envoy-at-large to the entertainment community, Jim Martin, S.J., has announced the very good news that Walter Ciszek’s With God In Russia, is now available on Kindle, courtesy of America Press. For anyone not yet familiar with Ciszek or this book, I urge you . . . . Continue Reading »
asks: A few months ago, Nicki Roswell had a knock on her door. A neighbour needed the back of her dress laced up and didn’t have anyone to do it for her. Ms. Roswell sympathized, since she lives alone herself, and fastened the woman’s clothing.The two are residents of Liberty Village, a . . . . Continue Reading »
If Republicans were truly serious about extending the natural rights thinking of the Founders and explaining it to the public, wouldn’t they start with late-term abortion on demand? That is far less abstract than (for instance) the relationship of the Obamacare mandate to the . . . . Continue Reading »
Four Italian intellectuals with sympathy for the politics of the Old Left issued a “Ratzingerian Marxist” manifesto late last year: Their manifesto is, in effect, an explicit declaration of appreciation of the vision of Pope Benedict XVI. Tronti [one of the four] says: The current . . . . Continue Reading »
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