Allison Benedikt could perhaps stand to take a few lessons from Mark Twain or Will Rogers, because her obviously satirical article in Slate has elicited a number of angry responses from readers who have taken her seriously. Here’s the article at issue: ” If You Send Your Kid to Private . . . . Continue Reading »
Vonnegut and Labor Day Matthew Gannon & Wilson Taylor, Jacobin Clive James’ Dull Dante Ian Thomson, Financial Times The Dark Dove with the Flickering Tongue Matthew J. Milliner & Brett Foster, Books & Culture The Case for Christian Realism Stanley Hauerwas, ABC Religion & . . . . Continue Reading »
That, of course, I was. So from the point of view of my profession, I’m apparently more controversial than even Mr. Ceaser. See what they’re saying about ME in THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCAITON and INSIDE HIGHER ED . I will say more later about and eventually post what I actually said. . . . . Continue Reading »
I know how puzzled many people are—-those on the right side of the political spectrum as well as those on the left—-by the deep friendship I have developed with Cornel West, growing out of our teaching partnership at Princeton. I don’t know if Cornel’s left-wing comrades . . . . Continue Reading »
It has been almost four months since Kermit Gosnell was convicted for the murder of three infants. The bodies of those infants and 44 others, seized as evidence from Gosnell’s clinic, have not yet been buried. They remain in the custody of the Philadelphia medical examiner. Archbishop Charles . . . . Continue Reading »
Every now and then, folks on the left who regard Mahatma Gandhi as a hero and a kind of saint, stumble on to his writings about sexual morality and marriage. They are stunned to discover that their hero was a ferocious critic of the relaxation of traditional norms of sexual ethics, even going as . . . . Continue Reading »
After Mr. Ceaser’s post below (and the remarkable thread), anything I say will seem boring. So I’m letting my “what I learned at the APSA meeting” go for a while. Meanwhile, read these BIG THOUGHTS . . . . . Continue Reading »
In your other Labor Day On the Square , Sandra Laguerta takes the LCWR to task for their “confused ecclesiology” and “unsettling misunderstanding” of Catholic teaching: There is noting unsatisfying about the council documents’ description of the laity, religious, and . . . . Continue Reading »
It may be Labor Day, but we still have two On the Square posts for you! Here’s William Doino Jr. on Marty Glickman, one of two Jewish runners who were not allowed to participate in the 1936 Olympics: The morning of the Olympic trials, as Marty prepared to help secure a spot for his relay team . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the “horsemen” of the “new atheism” has invited his opponents to enter the lists, and he’s willing to pay the champion. Sam Harris published The Moral Landscape about three years ago. In this book he argues that science is the real basis for . . . . Continue Reading »
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