Faith and Suicide
Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing
Ancients on Oldies
Richard Ingrams, The Spectator
In Defense of Difficulty
Steve Wasserman, The American Conservative
A Review of Rowan Ricardo Phillips's “Heaven”
John Poch, 32 Poems
Scientific-Sounding Excuses for Promiscuity
David Mills, Aleteia
The Case for Old Ideas
Ross Douthat, The New York Times
The 20 Photographs of the Week
Greg Whitmore, The Guardian
Factory Town
Austin Smith, The Poetry Foundation
The New Republic posted a little forum yesterday under the title “Do Humans Still Need to Study the Humanities?” The editors asked four former presidents of major institutions to answer the question. All of them state their commitment to humanities instruction and their regret that the fields have become marginal in recent years. Continue Reading »
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone is in the midst of a bare-knuckle battle over whether Catholic schools can require Catholic teachers to be . . . well . . . Catholic. Recently, anonymous parties hired Sam Singer—a high-billing Better-Call-Saul-style PR man renowned for . . . . Continue Reading »
Dante: A Very Short Introduction
Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian
Is It Time for the Jews to Leave Europe?
Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic
On Synod, Archbishop Kurtz Calls for Unity Between Catholic Beliefs and Pastoral Practice
Joan Desmond, National Catholic Register
Bible Study
Tony Hoagland, The Poetry Foundation
John Paul II firmly believed that we need fear only thoughtlessness and lack of courage. Just as Czechs and Slovaks maintained patience in the face of tyranny for four decades, we ourselves have reason to expect that current trends, however disheartening in the short term, will not endure forever. Continue Reading »
The Real War on Christianity
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian & Yochi Dreazen, Foreign Policy
A Rather Antinomian Christianity: John Updike's Religion
Gerald R. McDermott, Public Discourse
Reluctant Crusader
Tom Bartlett, The Chronicle Review
Lenten Conference Audio: St. Catherine de Ricci
Br. Irenaeus Dunlevy, Dominicana
Last week a study appeared in Computers and Human Behavior under the title “The brain in your pocket: Evidence that Smartphones are used to supplant thinking.” A summary of the findings in ScienceDaily bore the header “Reliance on smartphones linked to lazy thinking.” Researchers tested 660 subjects and found a clear correlation between high smartphone use and lower cognitive skills, especially “the willingness to think in an analytical way.” Continue Reading »
Memo to Supreme Court: State Marriage Laws Are Constitutional
Gene Schaerr & Ryan T. Anderson, The Heritage Foundation
Immortal Beloved
William Giraldi, The New Republic
Bare Ruined Choirs
Ellen Wilson Fielding, The Catholic Thing
Some Slant of Light
Joshua Auerbach, Asheville Poetry Review
Decades ago when I was a graduate student, I found myself in one of those extended bull sessions of a kind to which grad students in political science are prone, with half a dozen people discussing everything from texts in political philosophy to current affairs.
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