A recent report by the Public Research Institute and the Brookings Institution attempts to present a clearer picture of American religious orientation. One of the things it explores, as Lauren Markoe notes at Religion News Service , is differing views among Americans as to what being . . . . Continue Reading »
So this Acculturated review of THE BLING RING makes it sound pretty interesting, despite being directed and co-written by Sophia Coppola, who also wrote and directed LOST IN TRANSLATION, which many regard as one of the most criminally over-rated movies ever. But the interest will depend, I guess, . . . . Continue Reading »
Tim Powers In our August/September issue , Randy Boyagoda expresses a fatigue that many avid readers can relate to: “I’m sick of Flannery O’Connor. I’m also sick of Walker Percy, G. K. Chesterton, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, T. S. Eliot, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and . . . . Continue Reading »
In his On the Square today , Russell E. Saltzman considers the fickleness of a member of the rising generation in the Internet Age: For the generation ahead of him, Facebook is still the social media choice. But his generation (I remember that phrase being used a lot) doesn’t like . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s column , Victor Lee Austin reflects on the proliferation of ultrasound technology: Every young expectant couple I know today, without exception, when they have a prenatal visit, hope they will get to see the baby. Every baby’s photo book today has a sonogram for its first . . . . Continue Reading »
So I’ve gotten a ton of (two) complaints about not posting this week. Why don’t you say anything about the Zimmerman verdict? I don’t have any special knowledge or deep opinion. I’ll tentatively say I agree with Jimmy Carter, who sensibly said the verdict was a reasonable . . . . Continue Reading »
In my last On the Square column , I took exception to a New York Times piece which assailed Giovanni Palatucci, an Italian policeman honored by Yad Vashem for rescuing Jews during the Holocaust, and also under consideration for sainthood. Relying on highly . . . . Continue Reading »
Hart Stopping Edward Feser An Ambivalent Tisha B’Av Shmuel Rosner, Latitude Our Essential Disfigurement and the Reparation of Fiction Joshua Hren and Joseph O’Brien, Dappled Things The End of Racial Demagoguery John McWhorter, New Republic Pope in a Minefield Tim Kelleher, . . . . Continue Reading »
Brazil has been rocked by chaotic protests sparked by the FIFA Confederations Cup in June, reports Emma Elliott Freire in today’s On the Square . The protests began when a leftist group ( Movimento Passe Livre ) denounced an increase in bus fares and demanded a greater level of . . . . Continue Reading »
“Evangelical Catholicism is not some 50-yard line between Catholic left and Catholic right, but a vision of Church far beyond those polarities,” argues George Weigel in today’s column . Answering critics of his new book, he summarizes his position: I suggested that the past . . . . Continue Reading »
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