Let’s get one thing out of the way. While I wish that more people in politics talked like Yuval Levin and Austin Frakt I have a high tolerance for harsh political rhetoric. I know that in politics, some people are going to say vicious, ugly things and sometimes even believe them. I also think . . . . Continue Reading »
Footsteps is a Jewish organization that helps Hasidic Jews wishing to leave their ultra-orthodox community become integrated members of secular society and work through the profound difficulties of leaving behind their past and, in most cases, being disowned by their families. PBS and A Journey . . . . Continue Reading »
Elizabeth Scalia doubts that women should become more like men: The sexual revolution promise that women could “have it all” has always been oddly paradoxical: It encouraged women to find their best selves by aping men and conforming to traditionally male valuations of worth and . . . . Continue Reading »
In a short piece on novelist James Kelman’s latest work, Giles Harvey reflects on the tension between consciousness and plot in the modern novel. The object of the novelist, Harvey writes, at least since Jane Austen, has been increasingly to capture the human mind—express the odd turns . . . . Continue Reading »
St. Francis and the Biotechnological Future William B. Hurlbut, New Atlantis A Modern Illuminated Manuscript A rt Daily When Place is Not Enough Ross Douthat, Evaluations Chuck Colson: Recalling a Vision of Unity Robert P. George, Christian Post The Political Thought of Gouverneur . . . . Continue Reading »
The Boston Marathon bombings and the faiths of the Tsarnaev brothers have renewed the debate about the nature of Islam, so this week I am reposting my review of Miroslav Volf’s Allah: A Christian Response , from the Patheos archives. — President George W. Bush created a boiling . . . . Continue Reading »
Speaking at Notre Dame’s commencement ceremonies yesterday, Cardinal Timothy Dolan told graduates that Mary is “not just our patroness, but our model.” He explained: She gave God’s son a human nature; she gave the Eternal Word—God the Son, the second Person of the . . . . Continue Reading »
One of my astute sons has been trying to persuade me that the current idea of progress is actually regress; we seem to moving away from civilized behavior to get back to our roots or something, forgetting the long slog of mankind away from them to gain something better and cleaner for human . . . . Continue Reading »
The Supreme Court today agreed to hear Town of Greece v. Galloway , a case out of New York in which the Second Circuit held, in an opinion by Judge Guido Calabresi, that the town’s practice of allowing private citizens to open town board meetings with a prayer . . . . Continue Reading »
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