Catholic priest, sociologist, and prolific author Fr. Andrew Greeley died last night at the age of eighty-five. He had been mentioned in our pages no small number of times , sometimes in critical terms. Here’s an excerpt from what Fr. Richard John Neuhaus said about his book The Catholic . . . . Continue Reading »
So I read in the thread the request that we postmodern conservatives develop an opinion on the view of Alan Jacobs on Wendell Berry on PLACE. I naturally thought he’d been endorsing Berry’s view, and I’d have to criticize Alan from a Christian point of view. And then we’d be . . . . Continue Reading »
Anna Karenina on Contraception Just Thomism Repenting the Failure of Parish Catechesis Barbara R. Nicolosi, Year of Faith The Essayification of Everything Christy Wampole, Opinionator Evolution and the Eye Test S. Adam Seagrave, Public Discourse A New Moral Treatment for the Mentally Ill James . . . . Continue Reading »
reports: Mothers are the primary breadwinners in four out of 10 U.S. households with minor children, a record number driven up by growing populations of single moms and married women who make more than their husbands, according to a report released Wednesday from the Pew Research Center. . . . . . . Continue Reading »
Ben Domenech is one of the shrewder conservative writers out there. He supports a flat tax writing: The whole point of starting with the argument for a flat tax is to end up with a tax structure that looks more like Simpson-Bowles and less like the mess we have today . . . Of course Republicans . . . . Continue Reading »
A recently released report by the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians (a nonprofit group based in Austria) supplements and confirms Paul Coleman’s article in our June/July issue about discrimination against Christians in Europe. The report . . . . Continue Reading »
Jordan Bloom at The American Conservative hips us to the surprising fact that there is going to be a film about the Copperheads, that is, about the Northern Democrat political movement that opposed continuing the Civil War, and especially once the Emancipation Proclamation had been issued. The . . . . Continue Reading »
Today marks the first anniversary of the death of the blind flat-picking guitar master and folk legend Arthel “Doc” Watson. Kent Gustavson, author of the Watson biography Blind But Now I See, offers a fitting tribute over at bluegrasstoday.com , enumerating five “Doc Watson . . . . Continue Reading »
Brandon Watson explains Jeremy Bentham’s defense of infanticide : Bentham holds that homicide is forbidden in law primarily because of its mischievous effects, which he sorts into the two categories of danger and alarm . In other words, we forbid homicide in order to deter . . . . Continue Reading »
And I’ve been sharing with the organizers of a big Percy conference that will occur next year in the now-legendary St. Francisville my fake-sociological efforts to distinguish Percy-ism from (Wendell) Berry-ism. We Percy-ites see both good and bad effects of the national and multinational . . . . Continue Reading »
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