The uncanny and unsettling distance between what seems and what is pops up again in David Brooks’s latest column . These are my bolds below: If you wanted to pick words to capture Patio Man’s political ideals, they would be responsibility, respectability and order. Patio Man moved to . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s a question for the logicians out there: How do you reconcile this : Climate change is happening faster than previously predicted according to a new World Wildlife Fund report. Bringing together some of the most recent scientific reports and data, “Climate change: faster, . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t know when Lakeview Terrace will disappear from movie theatres. It features Samuel L. Jackson brandishing a chainsaw, so my best guess is "soon," which is a shame. A Chicago reviewer called it "one of the toughest racial dramas to come out of Hollywood since the fires . . . . Continue Reading »
A key source of misunderstanding in my much controverted Manifesto, I think, has to do with the very nature of my undertaking as respects theory and practice. Commenters who blame me for not providing a clear set of actionable principles are still working within a modern (post-Christian) . . . . Continue Reading »
Robert Royal reflects here on the limited importance of book-learning: [We should get rid of the idea that] a superficial understanding of sacred things is an advance over longstanding practices that directly confront the evils we find in ourselves and in a fallen world. On the very first page of . . . . Continue Reading »
A new law out of the Australian state of Victoria must be discussed. First, it permits abortion through the ninth month, meaning that viable babies are subject to being killed, which is to say it gets close to the land of infanticide. Second, it requires all doctors to either do abortions, or if . . . . Continue Reading »
The grieving parents of the late Daniel James, who became suicidal after becoming paralyzed from an injury sustained playing rugby, and who committed assisted suicide in Switzerland after being taken there by his parents for that purpose, have said that no one can judge their son. From the . . . . Continue Reading »
During an interview conducted in April 2007 but published in the Wilmington News-Journal for the first time yesterday, Joe Biden was asked how he reconciles his Catholic faith with his position on Roe v. Wade : It’s very difficult. I was raised as a Catholic, I’m a practicing Catholic, . . . . Continue Reading »
Mark Oppenheimer at the Wall Street Journal mourns the death of the practice of real debate in America: It used to be that high-school and college debates mirrored, in a salutary way, political debates. In school, young men and women learned to research topics and then debate their rivals, using . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week Public Discourse published the modified text of an address delivered by Archbishop Chaput speaking as a private citizen about the responsibilities of the Catholic voter. It contains a stern rebuke directed at Prof. Doug Kmiec: In his own book [ Can a Catholic Support Him?: Asking the Big . . . . Continue Reading »
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