So I saw the science fiction movie Looper a couple of weeks ago. A lot of stuff is going on. Some of it is time travel stuff and it gets kind of complicated, but I want to focus a bit on the family dynamics. The two main male characters become mass murderers in response to losing their mothers. One . . . . Continue Reading »
I can’t quote chapter and verse, but sometime after Barry Goldwater’s defeat, William F. Buckley wrote that the political problem for conservatives was that there were not enough political conservatives. Whatever Goldwater’s flaws as a candidate, and whatever the difficulties that . . . . Continue Reading »
Hollywood reports: Bravo is stepping a little outside of its wheelhouse with its latest reality series order. The network announced Wednesday that it has given the green light to Extreme Guide to Parenting (working title). The unscripted effort from Punched in the Head is intended to offer a candid . . . . Continue Reading »
New York City—area readers may wish to attend this lecture on health care ethics by Brother Ignatius Perkins, O.P., Ph.D., R.N. on Saturday, February 2. “The Dehumanization of the Clinician and the Demise of the Healing Relationship” is the inaugural lecture of the . . . . Continue Reading »
In order to better facilitate discussion on this blog, we’ve recently updated our commenting policies to include a limit on the length of comments. Comments can run to no longer than approximately three hundred words (1900 characters, including spaces). Multiple-part comments are not allowed; . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s old news, but consistently ignored. In her 2011 book, Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys , Kay Hymowitz reports basic facts about gender, income, and status. Here are some arresting statistics. Women between 25-34 with college educations now outnumber men in their . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, the new issue of PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICAL SCIENCE is out. It features diverse and deep symposia on two outstanding recent books: PLATO’S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY by Mark Blitz and our Ralph Hancock’s THE RESPONSIBILITY OF REASON. Commentators on Ralphism include Ralph himself . . . . Continue Reading »
In anticipation of this coming weekend’s New York Encounter January 18-20, I just finished re-reading the presentation that Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete , the Crossroads Cultural Center ‘s Chairman, gave to the board earlier this year about the creation of Crossroads, which led to the . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the most effective groups on the pro-life and pro-family scene in Ireland is the Iona Institute run by David Quinn who is one of our side’s most effective spokesman on national television. Of course, David and his colleagues are in the thick of the current battles over legal abortion . . . . Continue Reading »
Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. on evangelizing young adults : The current White House, and many others in our nation’s leadership classes, have a very different understanding of religious liberty from what our country’s founders intended. As a result, I’ve thought a great deal . . . . Continue Reading »
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