Allan Carlson at Imaginative Conservative reviews a 2009 book by historian Alan Pertigny, The Permissive Society: America, 1941-1965 . The title pretty much says it! Pertigny argues that the sexual revolution, and many related trends, were already well underway prior to the advent of the Pill and . . . . Continue Reading »
The Freedom of Information Act is in desperate need of reform, says Brian Simboli in his On the Square piece today. FOIA is a useful tool for defenders of religious freedom (and for concerned citizens in general), but its implementation is broken and prone to abuse: The government often . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s On the Square , Peter J. Leithart considers Wolfram Schmidgen’s new book, Exquisite Mixture: The Virtues of Impurity in Early Modern England . The Enlightenment has a reputation for being “a movement of rationalization and simplification,” and thus prone to an . . . . Continue Reading »
The bishop of Northampton will open the cause for the canonization of G. K. Chesterton, the head of the American Chesterton Society has announced, according to a tweet a friend forwarded. A story on this I have not been able to find on the web. But assuming it’s true: Here’s what his . . . . Continue Reading »
An apparently earnest man wants to hold Israel and Italy responsible for the death of Christ : A Kenyan lawyer has filed a petition with the International Court of Justice in The Hague, suggesting that the trial and crucifixion of Jesus Christ was unlawful, and the State of Israel among others . . . . Continue Reading »
Something actually useful on the papacy, or at least enjoyable, from the New York Times : a guess the quote game called “How Recent Popes Differ on Key Issues.” If one were to quibble, that “differ” in the title is ambiguous, and I’d guess that the Times . . . . Continue Reading »
Religion and State in Israel Moshe Koppel, Mosaic Swords into Syllogisms Randal R. Hendrickson, New Atlantis The Chaste Erotics of Marie d’Oignies and Jacques de Vitry Jennifer Brown, Medievalists Pascha in the Summer Fr. Steven Kostoff, Reflections in Christ It’s Jeremiad Time Wesley J. . . . . Continue Reading »
[caption id=”” align=”alignleft” width=”203”] Photo from The Economist [/caption] The Economist has a couple of interesting stories this week on the continuing plight of Christians in the Middle East. First, from the magazine’s valuable religion blog, . . . . Continue Reading »
So here’s a bit more on my effort to update our understanding of THE MIND OF THE SOUTH (the title of a quite singular and strange book by W.J. Cash) : Cash did follow Mencken—and genuine Southern Stoics such as the poet William Alexander Percy—in having a very poor opinion of the . . . . Continue Reading »
The late Robert Bellah’s work , like Philip Rieff’s, “revolves around a similar premise, and a similar problem,” wrote Wilfred McClay (a longtime member of our advisory council) in the Chronicle of Higher Education in 2006, on the occasion of the publication of The . . . . Continue Reading »
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