The Witherspoon Institute (where I direct the William E. and Carol G. Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution) is now accepting applications for the following seminars:Moral Life and the Classical Tradition: for rising high school juniors and seniors, with readings in Plato and Aristotle, . . . . Continue Reading »
For some time, an argument has been made that the liberal left, in refusing to examine the problems of Islam, has betrayed its Enlightenment roots. That is, while secular, feminist, and protective of free speech in dealing with its Western peers, the liberal left has been accused of abandoning its heritage in its quest for political correctness regarding Muslims. Continue Reading »
From Campus Bullies to Empty Churches
Mary Eberstadt, Intercollegiate Review
What is an @uthor?
Matthew Kirschenbaum, LA Review of Books
Anchorite in Autumn
Chard deNiord, Verse Daily
AA Envy
Helen Andrews, Helen Andrews
President Obama’s words at the National Prayer Breakfast have become yet another controversy in the long list of his remarks that have provoked attacks and defenses. The first thing to notice before his provocative “high horse” warning is the characterization of the killings . . . . Continue Reading »
Obama the Theologian
Ross Douthat, The New York Times
The Insanity Offence
David Warren, Essays in Idleness
Telling the Story of Modern Art
Mark Anthony Signorelli, Ethika Politika
Pope Mass: Protecting Creation a Christian Responsibility
Vatican Radio, America Magazine
A First Things podcast featuring two signers of the Marriage Statement.
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The notable legal philosopher turns his keen analytical powers to questions of Scripture. Continue Reading »
I Believe in Magazines: Proverbs for Publishing
James K. A. Smith, Augustine Collective
Wendell Berry’s ‘Room of Love’
Jake Meador, Fare Forward
In Search of Catholic Leaders
Father C. John McCloskey, The Catholic Thing
How could a man like Leo XII, after successful inoculations in Europe, America, Africa, and Asia, really reject a treatment that saved innumerable lives? Continue Reading »
Genius Denied and Reclaimed: A 40-Year Retrospect on Marshall G.S. Hodgson’s “The Venture of Islam”
Bruce B. Lawrence, Marginalia
Holy Hatred
Br. Humbert Kilanowski, Dominicana
“On the Way to School” Quietly Reveals the Heroic Journeys Kids Take to Get to Class
Chris Packham, The Village Voice
The Good, the Highest Good, and the Common Good
Edmund Waldestein, O.Cist, The Josias
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