Making Parenthood Pay W. Bradford Wilcox, Atlantic Reconciling Modern Biblical Scholarship With Orthodox Belief Yair Rosenberg, Tablet How Evil Should a Video Game Allow You to Be? Simon Parkin, New Yorker Nurturing the Sounds of the Orthodox Church Vivien Schweitzer, New York Times Fred . . . . Continue Reading »
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Three On the Square posts for you today! I hope you have an extra-long lunch break ( and don’t forget about Helen Rittelmeyer ). First, we’ve got George Weigel’s continued meditations on Poland : John Paul II had a keen insight into the way in which the two totalitarianisms of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Helen Rittelmeyer’s back! Here she is on “Winning the Distraction War, Losing the Distraction Peace” : In the last six months I’ve eliminated from my reading life everything that felt like empty carbs. The rule of thumb was: In a year, will I look back and think that this was . . . . Continue Reading »
Let There Be a Linguistic Construct Carl Trueman, Reformation21 Could Emergence Be Hylemorphic? James Chastek, Just Thomism A Bad Bargain George McKenna, Human Life Review Work and Dignity: A Conversation Mike Rose and Matthew Crawford, Hedgehog Review The Coptic Church: Decline, Survival, . . . . Continue Reading »
First off, here are my BIG THOUGHTS on that way of dividing American opinion. It goes without saying that it’s not the only way, and all such bloggy divisions are analytic schemes to clarify the real issues. Senator Lee, as Pete explains, is trying to situate the Republicans as the more . . . . Continue Reading »
Offered as a celebration of C. S. Lewis’ work on the fiftieth anniversary of his death, C. S. Lewis: In Memoriam promises to be a very good conference. Sponsored by the New York C. S. Lewis Society and the new Sheen Center , it features Lewis biographer William Griffin, French Lewis . . . . Continue Reading »
I haven’t followed the distraction wars very closely. That’s not a joke, I really haven’t paid close attention. I gather that a bunch of people of varying degrees of seriousness have expressed concerns about the effect the Internet has had on the way people think. A listicle of their worries . . . . Continue Reading »
I can’t say enough good things about this speech on family-friendly tax reform by Utah Senator Mike Lee. It is a beautifully written argument for a Republican tax agenda that prioritizes the interests of middle-class and struggling working parents. Lee’s speech also contains some . . . . Continue Reading »
Advance notice for next January’s New York Encounter , a three-day conference sponsored by the Catholic group Communion and Liberation. It will be held in New York January 17th to 19th and is, very nicely, free. Among the highlights are a talk on alienated youth by Christian Smith, the Notre Dame . . . . Continue Reading »
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