The Twee Tribe
Anna Katharina Schaffner, The Times Literary Supplement
Virtue, Family, and Community
Micah Mattix, The University Bookman
Assaulted by Moscow and Abandoned by Rome
Sandro Magister, Chiesa
Far from being criticized, Wesleyan University should be congratulated for revealing the ethical assumptions and the practical destination of the politics of sexual identity.
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Wesley J. Smith’s article “The Coming of Medical Martyrdom” highlights a troubling trend in Canada that would see physician’s religious rights sacrificed. But it’s not just in Saskatchewan this is happening.
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Scientific research has disturbing implications for building ethics on the principle of consent.
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Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square
Russell E. Saltzman, Aleteia
Forty for 40: A Literary Reader for Lent
Nick Ripatrazone, The Millions
11 Beautiful Churches of Eastern Europe
Editors, Church Pop
If individual autonomy is the jealous god it has proven itself to be, no rights of conscience or religious freedom will be permitted to stand in its way over the long term. But when does a person actually possess this autonomy to which he is said to have a right? Continue Reading »
College, Poetry, and Purpose
Frank Bruni, The New York Times
Landfall
Gabriel Olearnik, Dappled Things
Jailhouse Feminism
Mary Eberstadt, National Review
One of the memorable media events of the 2000s took place when Jon Stewart appeared as a guest on Crossfire in October 2004 and scolded Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson for staging mock debates and phony polarities: “It’s hurting America,” he moaned, as the hosts fumbled for a response. Continue Reading »
Digitizing the Humanities
Armand Marie Leroi, The New York Times
Lenten Homilies: A Single Author Anthology
Sandro Magister, Espresso Online
Soft Atheism
Matthew Engelke, Public Books
ISIS has beheaded twenty-one Egyptian Christians in Libya. What should the Church do? How do we respond? How should we think about their sacrifice? Why does God let this kind of thing happen? It’s days like this that we need a theology of martyrdom. Continue Reading »
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