First Links — 5.3.13

Beauty That Makes You Want to Believe Br. Henry Stephan, O.P., Dominicana Selected Translations Micah Mattix, Books & Culture Move to the City Alan Jacobs, American Conservative The Decline of the Rabbi-Intellectual Zach Mann, Jewish Ideas Daily Hope, North Korea, and Choco Pies Richard Lloyd . . . . Continue Reading »

Pinturicchio’s Native Americans

An art restorer at the Vatican has discovered what may be the first Western painting of Native Americans, hidden under grime in a fresco finished in 1494. The painting is Pinturicchio’s “ Christ’s Resurrection ,” and the newly uncovered figures—-“nude men, . . . . Continue Reading »

IUDs, MOOCs, and Money

Pamela Fox makes really cool stuff. So says Tessa Miller on  Life Hacker , a website the “curates [web-speak for exercising editorial judgment] tips, tricks, and technology for living better in the digital age.” I’m sure that’s true, about Pamela I mean. But she’s more . . . . Continue Reading »

First Links — 5.2.13

Recasting Conservative Economics James C. Capretta, AEI Jurassic Generation Ari N. Schulman, New Atlantis Positively Medieval Stephen Cooper, History Today Against Ethnic Catholicism Dwight Longenecker, Patheos The Devil in Pope Francis’ Teaching Gerry Blaszczak, New Advent . . . . Continue Reading »

National Day of Prayer

You might not have noticed it, but today is the National Day of Prayer. I should say,  a  National Day of Prayer, as that’s what the US Code calls it. Every year,  by law , the President issues a proclamation “designating the first Thursday in May as a National Day of . . . . Continue Reading »

Making More Information Voters

Over at Legal Insurrection, William A Jacobson writes about the costs of low information voters who get their information primarily through liberal-leaning (or sometimes straight partisan liberal) news outlets. I think the problem is less that they are low information than that many voters are no . . . . Continue Reading »