Cologne, Historisches Archiv, G.B. quarto, 249, fol. 68r One more reason to dislike cats. Thijs Porck on the Medieval Fragments blog explains the scene : A Deventer scribe, writing around 1420, found his manuscript ruined by a urine stain left there by a cat the night before. He was . . . . Continue Reading »
[caption id=”attachment_58574” align=”aligncenter” width=”500”] William F. Buckley Jr. and Fr. Richard John Neuhaus on Firing Line [/caption] Larry Perelman, a close personal friend of William F. Buckley Jr., recently published a piece he had written shortly . . . . Continue Reading »
As the New York Times has reported , the Obama administration’s drone policy assumes that women, children, and the elderly are civilians but “in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants, according to several administration officials, unless there . . . . Continue Reading »
Splendid Visions William Giraldi, Orion Beastly Justice: Medieval Animal Trials James McWilliams, Slate Rocco Palmo Is Not Going to Rome Stephan Sailsbury, Philadelphia Inquirer Is Celibacy a Sin? Walter Russell Mead, American Interest Surprise at Columbia Dawn Eden, Feast of Eden . . . . Continue Reading »
Kate is right that the Arthur Brooks article is interesting, but I would come at it from a different direction. I think that the economic challenge conservatives (to the extent they were embodied in the 2008 Republican field) face is not that they seem to be uninterested in the poor. It is that . . . . Continue Reading »
In perhaps the most unexpected commentary on Benedict XVI’s legacy, the U.K.’s liberal Guardian has a fashion column on the significance of Benedict’s sartorial and liturgical choices. And they get it exactly right : The root of his need to rediscover some of the more traditional, . . . . Continue Reading »
The Witherspoon Institute’s William E. and Carol G. Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution, which I have the honor to direct, will again sponsor its annual summer seminar this year, “The Moral Foundations of Law.” Held August 5 to 9, 2013, on the campus of Princeton . . . . Continue Reading »
In December, Paul Elie caused a small stir by claiming that “the novel of belief” has disappeared. I don’t want to wade into that debate—-for those who missed it, Andrew Sullivan has a good series of round-up posts —-but instead to look at one of the exceptions to . . . . Continue Reading »
“Secularization, a slacking of faith . . . was Ratzinger perhaps under siege?” the Italian newspaper Il Giorno asked Rome’s chief rabbi, Riccardo Di Segni . The rabbi answered: This Pope has never given in on anything, I don’t believe in a possible surrender, as . . . . Continue Reading »
In the Wall Street Journal , Arthur Brooks calls on conservatives to care about the poor, and to make the public argument that what they believe and work for is good for the poor : The answer is to make improving the lives of vulnerable people the primary focus of authentically conservative . . . . Continue Reading »
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