C. S. Lewis writes, “Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue; but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.” The same could be said of Twitter. Continue Reading »
Tel Aviv Catholic Church Serves Growing Migrant Community
Indrani Basu and John Albert, Religion News Service
Whit Stillman and Chloë Sevigny on Loving Paris
William van Meter, New York Magazine
What are the humanities good for?
Adam Kotsko, An und für sich
The New Humanities
The Editors, The Point
Love and Death in the Cape Fear Serpentarium
Wendy Brenner, Oxford American
Most people think of a corporation as a large, publicly-traded firm with thousands of passive shareholders who have little to do with day-to-day operations: Exxon Mobil. It would be strange for such a corporation to exercise a religion. But most corporations, like Hobby Lobby itself, are small, private firms with a handful of shareholders. Continue Reading »
Boko Haram has been carrying out atrocities for years. The group has murdered thousands and caused thousands more to flee. It has burned churches with people inside them; it has massacred people in the streets. But until now, the Western media has paid little attention. Why the change? Continue Reading »
Noah Toly opens his reply to my recent Q conference review by stating that my piece contained one big weakness. Apparently, this relates to my observation that at Q “bridges are favored over lines in the sand.” Toly replies, “While Q organizers and participants might find this refreshing, Murdock finds it obscurantist, lending a dangerously false sense of reconcilability to what might actually be irreconcilable positions.” Continue Reading »
Libertarianism versus conservatism, in 1980 and today. Continue Reading »
A Commencement Address from Jonathan Edwards
Aaron Bady, The New Inquiry
Annotation Tuesday! Tom Wolfe and “Radical Chic”
Elon Green, Niemans Storyboard
Dust or Ashes?
Virginia Stem Owens, Books & Culture
The Irish Catholic Promoting Yiddish Literature
Hannah Dreyfus, Tablet
The Worst Day Of My Life is now New York’s Hottest Tourist Attraction
Steve Kandell, Buzzfeed
A recent exchange between Rusty Reno and Andrew Haines has played back into previous exchanges between George Weigel (here and here), John Cavadini, and Aaron Taylor. Thanks to the folks at Ethika Politika, these exchanges keep swirling around Weigel’s vision of an Evangelical Catholicism and the ecumenism it promotes as part of the path forward. Continue Reading »
First Things is now in the second week of a two-week digital campaign to raise $20,000. And I’m pleased to report we have raised $5,305 thus far! Continue Reading »
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