“Here’s the problem with ‘maybe’: It means different things to different people. And something always gets lost in translation . . . ,” writes Elizabeth Bernstein in The Many Powers of Maybe . “‘It seems to be about ambivalence, but it is really about power . . . . Continue Reading »
David Brody makes an astute observation : According to a Public Opinion Strategies poll that has assessed the Midterm Election results from Tuesday, (conducted for the Faith and Freedom Coalition) 52% of all people who identified themselves as part of the Tea Party movement are also conservative . . . . Continue Reading »
I am just shocked at the success of the campaign to usurp parental authority over (in particular) girls to the public health sector. Children who can’t receive aspirin without parental consent, receive abortions, birth control pills, and mental health counseling in many areas. And . . . . Continue Reading »
In Thoughts at the Alamo , today’s second “On the Square” article, George Weigel argues that the Mexican-American war was “from one point of view, a war by what was a sometimes-militantly Protestant country against what had long been a deeply Catholic country.” But it . . . . Continue Reading »
Decades ago I spent a month or two of a summer in Boston. I still remember the inward cringe when I first traversed the sterile brick plaza at Government Center. It features one of those busy concrete buildings with jutting, thrusting, and vaguely functional slabs that vaguely reminds you of a . . . . Continue Reading »
Rocco Palmo of Whispers in the Loggia provides an interesting sidebar this morning to last night’s election returns: Since the first Congress sat in 1789, only four American Catholics have been entrusted with the gavel as Speaker of the House. Until now, though, they’ve all been . . . . Continue Reading »
1. So I was wrong: The results for the House, combined with those for the Governors and state legislatures, are genuinely impressive. The Republican party is now the more national and more dominant one. It’s also clearly a policy-driven result—a fact the MSM is attempting to obscure . . . . Continue Reading »
Although I am not an academic theologian, I have recently been grappling with a seemingly insuperable problem which for centuries has stumped the best minds in Christendom: How could a good God be so slow to answer a prayer for patience? Proposed solutions may be left in the comments . . . . Continue Reading »
There is no tea party movement , declares Joe Carter in today’s first “On the Square” article. (The second will be George Weigel’s column.) For the past eighteen months, pundits and politicians have been trying to identify this political animal. Everyone thinks they have . . . . Continue Reading »
So they’ve done it. Andrew and Sarah Wilson, tracing Luther’s 1510 journey from Erfurt to Rome , have finally crossed the Tiber. And I mean that literally. They reached their destination. Ecumenism can be the lightheaded pursuit of the touchy-feely crowd who don’t like to think hard . . . . Continue Reading »
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