As Joe Carter reported earlier , the now former editor of the French edition of Vogue tries, or tried, to include “something every month that is — how you say? — not politically correct. A little bit at the limit. Sex, nudity, a bit rock’n’roll, a sense of humour.” . . . . Continue Reading »
The Washington Post has an interesting article in its archives: “What will future generations condemn us for?” The author, Kwame Anthony Appiah, notes that throughout history, societies have had moral blind spots:Looking back at such horrors [such as slavery and lynching], it is easy to . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s the table of contents for the forthcoming issue (Jan.-March.): ARTICLES Health Care and the Technological Project 1 Tom Merrill The Demise of Feminist Communitarianism 9 Jon A. Shields and Steven Serna The Modern Foundations of Burke’s Conservatism 16 Andrea Radasanu Beyond the . . . . Continue Reading »
I saw True Grit over the holiday, and enjoyed it thoroughly. (In the original movie, John Wayne stole the film. In the new version, the girl who hires the marshal to capture—or better yet, kill—her father’s murderer eats the scenery; a true tour de force by newcomer Hailee . . . . Continue Reading »
Some months ago I expressed my skepticism about Dinesh D’Souza’s thesis that the best way to understand Barack Obama involves seeing him as trying to fulfill his father’s anti-colonialist vision. I argued that mainstream American liberalism, especially its hothouse academic forms, . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s second ” On the Square ” essay, Fr. Thomas Guarino (a past contributor to First Things and a member of Evangelicals and Catholics Together ) writes on concerns about draconian juridical policies within Catholic dioceses, and the effect they hold on the theology of . . . . Continue Reading »
This past week I finally was able to take my family to see “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader,” which is a marvelous film. Though it streamlines some of the book’s plots (it’s a favorite of my children), we found the film to be quite satisfying.As the movie reached . . . . Continue Reading »
” What Is Marriage? ” Robert P. George, Ryan Anderson, and Sherif Girgis’ recent article on marriage in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy , has generated something of a discourse among scholars of opposing views, even being called a “succinct and clear . . . . Continue Reading »
Much has been made, from all quarters, of the Republicans’ plans to begin the new session of Congress with a reading of the Constitution. Some have derided it as a kind of theater, implying that it therefore can’t be serious and meaningful. (Tell that to my wife, by profession an actor . . . . Continue Reading »
“It seems to me that beginnings of a stealth New Crusade may be taking root in the minds of some of my Christian correspondents,” writes Elizabeth Scalia in today’s “On the Square” article. The proper Christian response, she says in Surrender Unto Surrender , is a . . . . Continue Reading »
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