When Good Intentions Make Bad Art
James Tillman, Public Discourse
What Is It About Metropolitan?
B. D. McClay, American Spectator
The ‘Great Year’ Theory of History
Simon Reid-Henry, Intelligent Life
Catholic Education and the Bureaucratic Usurpation of Grace
Tracey Rowland, ABC Religion & Ethics
The Road to Dhimmitude
Richard Samuelson, Library of Law & Liberty
Topic: The New Calvinism
PBS Religion & Ethics Newsweekly
The Quality of Mercy
Mark Osler, American Prospect
The New Anti-Intellectualism
Andrew Piper, Infernal Machine
Why the Book of Common Prayer Still Matters
Jordan Hylden, Christianity Today
Foundations Once Destroyed: Principle in Mansfield Park
Br. Aquinas Beale, O. P., Dominicana
I don’t think Jeb Bush’s position on immigration is fatal to his chances of winning the 2016 Republican nomination for all the reasons Ramesh Ponnuru describes and several others besides. Bush’s support for a combination of policies that include legalization before effective . . . . Continue Reading »
The Wall Street Journal reports today that President Obama’s national security advisers have agreed on a proposal to increase US aid to “moderate” Syrian rebels. Although the advisers disagree on the advisability of more aggressive military intervention, they have apparently . . . . Continue Reading »
A few years ago John Piper created some controversy over his declaration that Christianity had a masculine feel. The claim raised several issues, one of which was the way a divorce of theological reflection from Christian tradition leads to a lopsided and impoverished theology. The impoverished . . . . Continue Reading »
Kenneth Miller’s Laetare Medal
Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend
Against Gratitude
Jessica Griffith, Good Letters
Wrongdoing Only Needs “Working With”
Theodore Dalrymple, Salisbury Review
A Love of Ruins
Evelyn Toynton, Prospect
POTUS and Pope
George Weigel, National Review
Is opposition to same-sex marriage at all like opposition to interracial marriage? One refrain in debates over marriage policy is that laws designating marriage as exclusively the union of male and female are today’s equivalent of bans on interracial marriage. Some further argue that . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s big enough for all of us, if we’re brave and humble enough to love. Continue Reading »
The Cistercians Are Back at Zirc
Randall Smith, Catholic Thing
A Timeline of Revolutions
Lapham’s Quarterly
Big Data, Big Mistake?
Tim Harford, Financial Times
“Everything Should Be Open to Question”
Tim Black, Spiked Online
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