Each summer, First Things hosts a Dominican student brother from the Province of Saint Joseph as a summer intern. The first student brother hosted was Br. Gabriel Torretta, O.P. in 2011, who entered the Dominicans in 2008 having studied pre-modern Japanese literature at Columbia University. . . . . Continue Reading »
Nature and God in Ethics Robert T. Miller, Public Discourse Developing Genre: St. Augustine and David Foster Wallace Bradley M. Peper, Marginalia The Good News About Power James K. A. Smith, Comment The Evolution of Evolutionary Language Peggy Rosenthal, Good Letters The Sherlock Holmes of . . . . Continue Reading »
Ramesh Ponnuru argues that Chris Christie’s impending win shows that a social conservative can win in purple (or even blue) territory. Samuel Goldman argues that the price for these social conservatives being elected is that they must not actually do much to advance their policies. I’m . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, it’s somehow, inevitably, Tuesday today. And here’s what we have for you to read: At Postmodern Conservative , Pete Spiliakos talks about the new Republicans (more on that here ), Carl Scott decries lies (and the lying liars who tell them), and Peter Lawler continues to talk . . . . Continue Reading »
The headline —-“Fewer home-school families cite religion as their main motivation”—-caught my eye. Is it really true that religious families comprise a smaller proportion of the homeschooling community than in the past? The article certainly makes that claim, even if it . . . . Continue Reading »
Thailand is the only southeast-Asian nation that was never colonized by western powers, and the Thai pride themselves on being a “land of the free.” But now it seems that some in the West want to impose a bit of cultural imperialism on the Thai. Recently American media have criticized . . . . Continue Reading »
So I appreciate a couple of criticisms I got of my semi-ironic presentation of Tocquevillian WAVISM below. That wavism, we can say, can be reduced to the proposition that democracy emotionally deconstructs LOVE. You can find a similar kind of wavism in Allan Bloom’s CLOSING, which is all . . . . Continue Reading »
Golem and the Limits of Artifice Charles T. Rubin, New Atlantis Finances, Facebook, and Pornography Br. Gabriel Torretta, O.P., Dominicana The Christian Pantheon of Holy Land Explorers Nadav Shragai, Israel Hayom Guy Fawkes, Science, and Religion Matthew Kneale, Telegraph What . . . . Continue Reading »
[caption id=”” align=”alignnone” width=”508”] Photo from the New York Daily News [/caption] . . . here in New York City, and reader John McGinnis points me to an interesting New York Times column on the election’s likely effect on some . . . . Continue Reading »
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