Reihan Salam On Low-Skill Immigration Under Current Circumstances
by Pete SpiliakosReihan Salam argues that low-skill immigration impacts US society differently now than a hundred years ago. Salam writes that the skills gap between low-skill immigrants and native-born American is wider now than in 1900 “and so this particular barrier to assimilation was much . . . . Continue Reading »
“Risk and Legal Fear in Schools”: Common Ground
by Eve Tushnetasks: A New Hampshire school district bans dodgeball . A Georgia school sends a kindergartener off in handcuffs . A Florida high school is shut down when a student brings in a mercury thermometer . Across the country, schools and school districts are overreacting to . . . . Continue Reading »
Church and State, and Al Smith
by David MillsOn Monday Brother Dominic Verner wrote of his happy discovery of the statue of Father Francis Duffy in Times Square (that part of the square is actually officially titled “Duffy Square”). Readers will want to know more about this priest and t he wikipedia entry is a good place to start. . . . . Continue Reading »
Graduation Prayers, “Religious Bullying,” and Our Reason for Joy
by Dominic VernerWhen valedictorian Roy Costner IV ripped up his graduation speech yesterday and prayed the Lord’s prayer, he dealt a defiant riposte to the atheist whining which had prevailed over his South Carolinian school district. His prayer garnered an exuberant round of Southern hoots, hollers, and . . . . Continue Reading »
Conservative Comments on the Future of Marriage and Reading
by Peter LawlerBIG THOUGHTS HERE . . . . Continue Reading »
Almost Too True to be True
by R. R. RenoSome months ago Fathers Thomas Joseph White and Austin Litke, O.P., played bluegrass music at the World Youth Alliance headquarters here in New York. They’re good, and to be frank they also look kinda out-there. It’s not often that you see two guys in white habits playing guitar . . . . Continue Reading »
Bible Outpaces Fifty Shades of Grey to Become Bestseller in Norway
by Matthew SchmitzA new bible translation has become a surprise bestseller in Norway, where only one percent of the population regularly attends church: It may sound like an unlikely number one best-seller for any country, but even more so in secular Norway. Yet the Bible, printed in a new Norwegian language . . . . Continue Reading »
David Brooks at Howards End
by J.L. WallIn his “City Meditations” series (which you really should be reading), Alan Jacobs offers a critique of Wendell Berry’s 2012 Jefferson Lecture . Berry’s “Boomers and Stickers,” he points out, is a nice rhetorical device, but break down as categorical tools . . . . Continue Reading »
A Primer on the Southern Baptist Convention, Pt. 2
by Miles S. Mullin, IIRead part one in this multi-part history here . Both a zealous commitment to congregational autonomy and a strong impulse toward cooperative ministry underlie the organizational history of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Throughout the history of the denomination, Southern Baptist leaders . . . . Continue Reading »
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