Br. Raymund Snider, O.P. makes a Summa -style inquiry into whether the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas are “boring” —appropriately enough, given that yesterday was his feast day. Particularly charming is the argument from girth: Objection 1: It would seem that Thomas . . . . Continue Reading »
It may have been penicillin, not the Pill, that triggered the sexual revolution, a new study indicates . Hypothesizing that “a decrease in the cost of syphilis due to penicillin [which, in 1943, was found to treat syphilis effectively] spurred an increase in risky non-traditional . . . . Continue Reading »
Tom West – who, I want to make clear at the outset, can easily run circles around me in his knowledge of Locke’s writings – does well to remind us of the (now) conservative, pro-family conclusions that Locke draws from his very modern philosophical premises. And these . . . . Continue Reading »
Elizabeth Scalia wonders how we respond to “ so what? ” The repeated thesis was simply this: “so what?” Such a disarming question; the sort of question society has long-regarded as adolescent, arrogant, disdainful, and yes, more than a little snotty. It is a question that . . . . Continue Reading »
The joyful anticipation of a fresh conquest is palpable on the front page of today’s New York Times : ” In a Quick Shift, Scouts Rethink a Ban on Gays .” That’s right, at its national executive board meeting next week, the Boy Scouts of America will consider eliminating . . . . Continue Reading »
We are very pleased to introduce Maureen Mullarkey as our newest blogger. Her blog will take up cultural, artistic, and (of course) religious matters. Here’s a bit of her introductory post : I am a painter, as was my father. He descended from a line of British bricklayers who had taken up . . . . Continue Reading »
An Unrecognizable America Carson Holloway, Public Discourse The Possibility of Progress Jeremy Kessler, New Atlantis Pride and Prejudice at 200 Heather Horn, Atlantic In Defense of Church-Hopping Michelle Van Loon, Her.menutics St. Gregory Nazianzen as Confessional Theologian Eclectic Orthodoxy . . . . Continue Reading »
Everyone forgets that Nathan Leopold died a free man. The first part of his story is familiar enough: He and Richard Loeb were two intellectually precocious teenagers from Chicago’s wealthy German Jewish elite, and they read too much Nietzsche and started thinking they were supermen. Loeb, the . . . . Continue Reading »
Between 15010 and 1512, Leonardo da Vinci drew the human fetus with startling and unprecedented accuracy. According to Arizona State Univeristy’s Embryo Project Encyclopedia , Leonardo is regarded as “the very first in history to correctly depict the human fetus in its proper position . . . . Continue Reading »
Quick: Define nugatory, macerate, and ferrous, and use each in a sentence. A bit rusty on your vocabulary? You may want to brush up—-and make sure your kids do, too. As E. D. Hirsch Jr. writes in City Journal: There’s no better index to accumulated knowledge and general competence than the size . . . . Continue Reading »
Subscribe
Latest Issue
Support First Things
