I just noticed that the little reflection I wrote on the anniversary of the tragedy of Roe v. Wade has been shared more times than anything else I've ever posted. I am grateful to everyone who shared it. The abortion license is continuing to gnaw at the conscience of our nation, as the . . . . Continue Reading »
Trump and Sanders rise because Americans love to panic. God's people should crucify this desire in ourselves and show the world what real security looks like. Continue Reading »
Today, January 22, 2016, the 43rd anniversary of the monstrous decision of the Supreme Court to deprive an entire class of human beings—those hidden in their mothers' wombs waiting to be born—of the most basic human right, we recall that the Supreme Court did this once before in our history. Men . . . . Continue Reading »
Conservatives Against Trump
NR Symposium, National Review
Defenders of the Unborn
Kristin Dombak, New York Times
A Truly Liberal Society Would Tolerate the Anglican Church’s Views on Sexuality
James Mumford, Spectator
Is Loyola University Losing Its Catholic Identity?
Christopher Kaczor, Catholic World Report
Is The Monomyth A Myth?
Jonathan McDonald, Dappled Things
Human Rights Law and the Erosion of Politics
Noel Malcolm, New Criterion
I March for Life Because I’m Haunted by Jessica Jones
Jason Scott Jones, Stream
How I Defeated the Tolkein Estate
Austin Gilkeson, Toast
Another great thing about being an altar boy was getting to the church early, before everyone except the ostentatiously devotional railbirds who actually competed to see who could be there first kneeling at the rail fingering their rosaries and pretending to be lost in meditative reverence but . . . . Continue Reading »
Donald Trump ascribing responsibility for his first two failed marriages to working “like, twenty-two hours a day” brought to mind Adam Smith’s invocation of the “invisible hand” in his 1759 work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. There, the invisible hand is not quite the same general . . . . Continue Reading »
There's more to mumbo jumbo than the fact it does not actually say anything. Continue Reading »
The Catholic Martin Mosebach and the Muslim Navid Kermani are fascinated by one another’s faith. A conversation about true and false tolerance – and about how Islam is misunderstood in the West. Continue Reading »
Today, we live in a time of threats like few others in recent memory. During anxious times, it can be tempting to follow the siren call of the angriest voices. We must resist that temptation.”Those are the controversial sentences in Governor Nikki Haley’s response to the President’s State of . . . . Continue Reading »
BREAKING: Episcopal Church Suspended from Full Participation in Anglican Communion
Deacon Greg Kandra, Aleteia
The Brutalism of Ted Cruz
David Brooks, New York Times
There's Nothing Patriotic About William Blake's Jerusalem
Kate Maltby, Spectator
David Bowie: The Prettiest Star
Noah Millman, American Conservative
Alan Rickman: Even Better as a Romantic Lead
Megan Garber, Atlantic
Baltering
Ellen RM Toner, Dappled Things
Making Poetry Matter
Micah Mattix, City Journal
Life at One of England’s Last Tolstoyan Communes
Kelsey Osgood, New Yorker
Application Information: Religious Freedom Project
Nicholas Fedyk, Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs
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