Education Is Mainly Knowing Lots of Words

by Peter Lawler

BIG THOUGHTS HERE . . . . Continue Reading »

28 Jan 2013 0

Ivan the K Has His Say on West’s Locke

by Peter Lawler

I have received a good number of emails on Tom West’s friendly criticism of our dogmatically Straussian Locke. Here’s one from our friend Ivan Kenneally: The thread on Locke is a provocative one. I think West is half right—the absence of any epistemological access to natural . . . . Continue Reading »

28 Jan 2013 0

“March for Marriage” Planned for Day Supremes Hear Prop 8 Case

by Matthew Schmitz

From the National Organization for Marriage’s Brian Brown: Not long ago, I sent you an email hinting that NOM was getting ready to launch some major initiatives. Well, after participating in the March for Life last Friday, I am excited to announce that NOM is putting together a March for . . . . Continue Reading »

28 Jan 2013 0

Religious Vision—Liberal Blindness

by R. R. Reno

I’m a Christian intellectual. (I hope that’s true, on both counts). I have a PhD in theology. That’s what I know best. I participate in the Christian form of life, or at least I try to. It provides me with my most basic intellectual tools. This Christian way of thinking is not . . . . Continue Reading »

28 Jan 2013 0

Lingering at the Fringes

by Matthew Schmitz

C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton have introduced many to the riches of Christianity, but Elliot Milco urges those of us who have benefited from their writing not to linger at the fringes of the faith : Most of us go through a period of inquiry that marks the transition between the thoughtless . . . . Continue Reading »

28 Jan 2013 0

On the Square Today

by The Editors

R.R. Reno on freedom from religion : For the most part intellectual techniques of critique help us break free. Elaine Pagels specializes in books that call orthodoxies into question. Why privilege the New Testament over the suppressed and supposedly heretical Gnostic gospels? When it comes to God, . . . . Continue Reading »

28 Jan 2013 0

Roe Plus Forty: Where Now?

by David T. Koyzis

Last week marked the fortieth anniversary of Roe vs. Wade . In the absence of a consensus favoring legal protection of the unborn, what are the alternatives available to us in the short term? In my most recent Capital Commentary piece , I make four suggestions: First, we always do well to assume . . . . Continue Reading »

28 Jan 2013 0

DOWNTON ABBEY as Lockean Critique of Aristocratic Vanity and Laziness

by Peter Lawler

Last night on Downton Abbey , the Earl of Grantham’s aristocratic vices were shown not only to be threatening the way of life of the people for whom he’s responsible but were the cause of his daughter’s quite unnecessary death. His middle-class son-in-law has been discovering how . . . . Continue Reading »

28 Jan 2013 0

First Links — 1.28.13

by Matthew Cantirino

Hope, Despair, and the Fortunes of Permanence Wilfred M. McClay, The University Bookman To Bury or to Burn? David Jones, The Gospel Coalition Divided by Abortion, United by Feminism Ross Douthat, New York Times The Gridlock Illusion R. Shep Melnick, The Wilson Quarterly Secular and Pro-Life Leslie . . . . Continue Reading »

28 Jan 2013 0

Non-Rhetorical Question

by Pete Spiliakos

If we were having a surge rather than a drawdown in Afghanistan, would we still have gotten last week’s announcement opening the ground combat arms to women? . . . . Continue Reading »

27 Jan 2013 0