The Amherst College alumni program will host: An Evening with Professor Hadley Arkes: Reflections on his book First Things Wednesday, May 8, 2013 5:30-8:00 p.m. Penn Club 30. 44th Street W New York, NY This event will mark the 25th anniversary of Arkes’ book First Things and the . . . . Continue Reading »
blogs: I’ve been travelling a lot recently and in Anchorage (American Bar Association Family Law Section Meeting) I was on a panel with a doctor who does fertility work in southern California. He mentioned that it was now possible to give a gift certificate that allowed the recipient . . . . Continue Reading »
George Weigel on the radicalism of Pope Francis : “I wish to say to you frankly,” the pope continued, “that I prefer a thousand times an injured Church than a sick Church,” a risk-taking Church to a Church palsied by self-absorption. Thus the vision toward which this pope . . . . Continue Reading »
As I’ve mentioned before , I’m leading a seminar on the family and political thought. There are seven of us all told, five smart and accomplished young women, a sharp young man, and their cranky middle-aged professor. We’re finishing up by reading the . . . . Continue Reading »
So the blog is dead, says THE NEW REPUBLIC , ANDREW SULLIVAN, etc. Spontaneous emanations have moved mainly, of course, to TWITTER. And so many blogs are now really magazines or daily journals or whatever—see LAW AND LIBERTY, THE IMAGINATIVE CONSERVATIVE, MINDING THE CAMPUS, PHILANTHROPY . . . . Continue Reading »
Tawdry Links Matt Emerson, Ignatian Educator Multigenerational Poverty, Crime Control, and Civil Society Reihan Salam, The Agenda Celebrating Kierkegaard’s Bicentennial Daphne Hampson, Oxford University Press Blog Knights of Columbus Return to Gonzaga Jody Lawrence-Turner, . . . . Continue Reading »
Via Instapundit and Ed Driscoll , attention is paid to a post “Why Cary Grant Is Mandatory for the Manosphere” by an econ blogger who calls himself “Captain Capitalism” ( groan ), a post basically about how imitating Cary Grant will help you win the women. The only really . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . for winning the BRADLEY PRIZE. Someone is to be praised for giving the award to someone who’s actually up and coming, and to someone who thinks outside (in some ways) the Bradley box. You would think the various potential Republican candidates would be lined up around the block hoping . . . . Continue Reading »
James R. Rogers on the changing religious identities of Protestants and Catholics : While strong Protestants haven’t gained in the overall population, despite gaining proportionally among self-identified Protestants, they also haven’t lost ground in the overall population during this . . . . Continue Reading »
Rorandelli Rocco for The Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal ran a nice feature this weekend on the Clericus Cup, ”a [soccer] tournament that pits squads from 16 seminaries against each other in a battle for [Rome’s] Catholic sports bragging rights—with the . . . . Continue Reading »
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