Here’s a report on a working draft of a Kabul-Washington deal on the U.S. Afghan mission after 2014: Taken as a whole, the document describes a basic U.S.-Afghan exchange. Afghanistan would allow Washington to operate military bases to train Afghan forces and conduct counter-terrorism . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s what looks to be the final update on that interview Pope Francis gave to Eugenio Scalfari of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica this fall. Readers of this website will recall that the interview quotes Pope Francis as saying, among other things, that . . . . Continue Reading »
Happy Tuesday! At Postmodern Conservative , Peter Lawler thinks about the progressive rejection of the ACA and Pete Spiliakos draws a lesson from Nancy Pelosi and the media . Maureen Mullarkey on El Greco : “It is one of the oddities of cultural history that this non-Spaniard, buried in an . . . . Continue Reading »
On Wednesday, November 13, Fr. Maciej Zieba, O.P., came to the New York office to give a talk on the theory and practice of solidarity. His reflections were grounded in his concrete experiences of life under communist rule. Moving through an analysis of the philosophy of solidarity, especially as . . . . Continue Reading »
Kuttner , an old-fashioned progressive, big-government liberal, said that the Democrats missed a big opportunity in 2008. Due to the mainly Republican missteps, there was a moment when progressive reform could have, once again, become change we can believe in. What we needed was a new . . . . Continue Reading »
To open these reflections with an unavoidably terrible sentence: Peter Gordon’s review of Carlos Fraenkel’s book Philosophical Religions from Plato to Spinoza in the New Republic is an interesting account of what sounds like an interesting book. Still, the review left me with several . . . . Continue Reading »
The Atlantic ran an interview with David Thornburg, entitled “Lectures Didn’t Work in 1350—and They Still Don’t Work Today.” It’s full of the typical technology-will-save-education balderdash. I’ll skip any comments on that topic. Let’s talk about this assertion that lectures . . . . Continue Reading »
Still in the World Joe Carter, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission Crops, Towns, Government James C. Scott, London Review of Books Defending ‘Branch Theory’ Fr. Jonathan, Conciliar Anglican Sex and the Polis: A Symposium Christopher Fisher, Intercollegiate Review . . . . Continue Reading »
In 1939, the historian Christopher Dawson penned the essay ” Catholicism and the Bourgeois Mind ,” a call for resistance to the bourgeois mentality. Dawson set a hostile tone almost immediately by declaring that “it is difficult to deny that there is a fundamental disharmony . . . . Continue Reading »
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