In case you haven’t yet heard, Annuntio vobis aenigma magna: the Huffington Post has inaugurated a religion section! Should it choose to take the Washington Post ’s “On Faith” as a model, the project would make about as much sense as pre-Yeltsin Pravda launching a section . . . . Continue Reading »
David Brooks thinks so. But to link the tea parties to the ’60s left by way of Rousseau, he has to draw our attention away from the nationally disaggregate and locally-rooted character of lots and lots of the tea partiers. The recent tea party convention does underscore how the tea parties . . . . Continue Reading »
First Things doesn’t endorse candidates but we appreciate when candidates endorse our views. For example, as advocates of adventuresome space travel we naturally get excited about Congressional candidates who advance that agenda. But Kesha Rogers, the new Democratic nominee for Texas’ . . . . Continue Reading »
Though this news story from South Carolina doesn’t seem to approve of the recent action of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church to remove Erskine College’s current board of trustees, I suspect it may be a healthy development. A big part of the reason for the secularization of . . . . Continue Reading »
Go hug your favorite grammarian—it’s officially National Grammar Day . Language is something to be celebrated, and March 4 is the perfect day to do it. It’s not only a date, it’s an imperative: March forth on March 4 to speak well, write well, and help others do the same! . . . . Continue Reading »
Stephen Barr on science, reason, and Catholic faith : There is hardly any subject about which there is more widespread ignorance and misinformation than the relationship between the Catholic faith and science. This ignorance extends to all sectors of society, from the “man on the street” . . . . Continue Reading »
About a month ago, I did an extended interview with Colleen Carroll Campbell for EWTN about my book. It will air in a few months. But what a nice surprise today that she devoted her column to a review. And she gets it. From her column:Wesley J. Smith is a speciesist. And he thinks . . . . Continue Reading »
I am sympathetic to the motivation of those who argue that each of us should be presumed by law to want to be an organ donor—increasing the organ supply—but not the method. Known as “presumed consent,” these laws assume silence means consent, making each of us potential . . . . Continue Reading »
There are so many gems of wisdom in William Deresiewicz’s lecture on ” Solitude and Leadership “—delivered to a plebe class at West Point—that it’s difficult to find a single point to excerpt. But his section on introspection and solitude is especially insightful and . . . . Continue Reading »
Two Muslim women defy the (appropriately named) Rapiscan . . . while the other cowards in the British police state continue their cowardly ways: The two women are thought to be the first passengers to refuse to submit to scanning by the machines, which have provoked controversy among human rights . . . . Continue Reading »
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