When New Yorkers go to the polls this November they will be asked to approve a constitutional amendment to legalize casino gambling in the state. The state’s liberal governor, Andrew Cuomo, has made the amendment central to his economic plans for upstate New York and it has been endorsed by . . . . Continue Reading »
I am pleased to introduce two friends who have recently joined the list of regular writers for “First Thoughts.” We are honored, touched, moved, pleased as punch, happy as clams, and tickled pink to have them. Readers of the magazine may recognize Mark Barrett, as he has been quoted . . . . Continue Reading »
Conservative presidential speechwriter Matthew Scully recently published an article on the topic of animal cruelty: “ Pro-Life, Pro-Animal .” Scully draws a strong line between a culture which allows massive amounts of unnecessary animal suffering and a culture which turns a blind eye to . . . . Continue Reading »
Islamofatigue Brendan O’Neill, Telegraph Bohemia at the Bottom of Manhattan Fred Siegel, Weekly Standard Drowning in the Digital Abyss J. Hoberman, New York Review of Books Blog The Dynamic Unity of Conscience Nathaniel Peters, Library of Law & Liberty Kraus and Franzen Eric Banks, . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s Tuesday ! The sun rose, and here we are. And here these blog posts are: At Postmodern Conservative , Carl Scott reminds us that “1989 was a while ago.” Some of us were born then, Carl . . . . Peter Leithart discusses maverick Bible scholars and the slipping of Solomon . It . . . . Continue Reading »
Our good friend Fr. Edward Oakes, S.J., with the editor and me a member of Evangelicals and Catholics Together, has written a very good review of David Hart’s The Experience of God . “One would be hard put,” he says, “to find a more thorough and a more devastating refutation . . . . Continue Reading »
Over on NRO, Gilbert Sewall takes many words to say what could be said in few: Education policymakers and reformers don’t champion the humanities chiefly because, for all the noise they make about keeping us aware of our higher purposes or enriching us with the noble and beautiful, the . . . . Continue Reading »
The Society of Catholic Scholars of Delaware, the Catholic Campus Ministry, and the Department of Philosophy of University of Delaware are sponsoring a public lecture this Thursday titled “The ‘God Particle’ and ‘Self-Creating Universes’” with Stephen Barr. A . . . . Continue Reading »
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